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The Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper decides to exercise its First Amendment right to publish public information. For no discernible reason — such as the public good — the newspaper publishes a database making it easy to find the names and addresses of concealed handgun permit holders.

Stephen Colbert offers his take on the situation in this segment titled “The Word – Locked and Loathed.”

Who needs those pesky freedoms enumerated in the Constitution? Now we can live safely in a police state once know as the “land of the free and home of the brave.”