While working in his garage, a man builds a long wooden table, then invites neighbors to carve messages into it.
At first, jokes and names appear; however, strangers arrive, and some carve threats, others carve lies, and a few carve instructions for violence.
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After the table collapses under the weight of damage and lawsuits, the man insists on his innocence; after all, other hands held the tools.
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It’s a workable argument until the man realizes the table sits on his property, under his roof, and exists only because he invited the carving.
That moment arrived for Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and it didn’t come from any legal theory or ideology; it came from experience.
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