# why no support for limiting access to information?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-support-for-limiting-access-to-information/758140>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 23, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-support-for-limiting-access-to-information/758140 "2016-06-23T14:26:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-support-for-limiting-access-to-information/758140/21 "2016-06-24T02:26:49Z")

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> [@coffeecat](#):
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> The short version is that people become wise through the free exchange of ideas…This argument doesn’t apply to guns

True. When people have tried to become wiser through the free exchange of gunfire, nobody gets wiser and you usually need to replace the carpet.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-support-for-limiting-access-to-information/758140/22 "2016-06-24T02:42:37Z")

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[Polls showed a spike in support for limiting the first amendment after 9/11, and again after the Boston Marathon bombing.](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/03/newseum-institute-first-amendment-center-2015-first-amendment-study/29623405/)

Another terrorist attack, another call to clamp down.

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