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but those 15 foot restrictions were purely for right-of-way. The protestors were blocking the way into the clinic. That wasn't trumping the 1st amendment. That was restricting a group from preventing another group from legally going somewhere.
Now, 100 feet away from the cemetery isn't for right of way, it's to move the protestors where they won't bother the people in the cemetery. That's beyond the scope of what congress can do without a constitutional amendment. Phelps and his gang aren't stopping the funerals, they're just making asses of themselves outside the gates.
And you're right that some day an idiot might shoot Phelps for his bullshit outside the cemetery. And that idiot should go to jail. Saying Phelps shouldn't be allowed to express his opinion because someone MIGHT shoot him is kinda crazy. Should we have said that to Martin Luther King too?
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