Media registry gag exposes bias against 2nd Amendment

A South Carolina lawmaker looking to make a political point about guns and free speech snookered members of the press who took quite seriously his proposal to establish a registry for journalists.

“My visceral reaction isn’t printable but can be summarized thusly: This is a naked attack on the First Amendment — you know, the one that says ‘Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech or of the press,” the Washington Post’s Callum Borchers said late Tuesday afternoon, referring to a bill introduced by Republican State Rep. Mike Pitts.