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In “Gun rights” (Voice of the people, May 16), Michael Maltz stated that he believes that the exercise of our 2nd Amendment rights should be limited to 18th Century technology (“grant every citizen the right to own a front-loading musket”).

Why should not the same standard apply to the rest of the Bill of Rights? Thus, the free speech protections of the 1st Amendment apply only to face-to-face speech or to the printed or handwritten word, and not to anything we might say on the telephone, radio, TV or the Internet.