Blood On Their Hands

The misguided, irresponsible and dangerous response to the Jordan Neely tragedy

In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote an opinion on behalf of a unanimous Supreme Court, finding that the Constitution's First Amendment does not, in fact, provide an all-encompassing protection of speech.

To illustrate his point, Holmes used a hypothetical example, writing, "(Even) the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a …