Republican lawmaker says journalists should face a registry to work in South Carolina

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(01-20-2016, 12:16 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Register your gun, register your reporter.  Sounds fair.

except... Reporters aren't lethal weapons. They don't have some kind of special sway. In the end, journalists are only exercising a person's first amendment rights. That's it. Anything a report does someone off the street can do, as far as going into a public meeting or public building and requesting public documents.