'The Constitution is not a suicide pact'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "The comments from the audience when the statement was made about the non-Christian doctors and nurses were 'Ah' and 'Oh' and other expressions of anger," Latimer testified.
48% : The same is true of disease control policies and gun regulations.
40% : In 2021, a CNN opinion piece urged mandatory COVID-19 vaccination, saying "the Constitution is not a suicide pact guaranteeing a right to harm others.
39% : "The Constitution's a sacred document, but it is not a suicide pact," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in 2016, voicing support for banning gun possession by people on "no fly" lists.
30% : And even when speech restrictions might be justified, as with the gag order against Trump, a persuasive defense requires reasoned argument, as opposed to intimations of imminent doom.
26% : Calling for stricter gun control in 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom worried that "the Second Amendment is becoming a suicide pact."
18% : "In a 2023 Time essay, University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade defended a gag order against Donald Trump in his federal election interference case.

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