There is a very old saying, "the pen is mightier than the sword." Words can and do cause real damage. They do change the world. Words have been used to cause death and destruction. To keep others and children safe we the government will now require instruction, testing and a background check for you to write with a pen name. What a crazy idea!
Who here would ever support a government permitting law that required instruction, testing and a background check before you could use an alias, pen name, handle before exercising your First Amendment right to free speech? Other than the Communists, anarchists, fascists few; a permitting requirement would be equally condemned by all.
I find the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution is very clear, "shall not be infringed".
Those that argue that the First Amendment does have limitations and therefore the Second can also have limitations have a very flawed argument. The the limits of speech are limits that cause harm, such as: you can't yell fire in theater, you can libel and slander. These are things that cause harm to others recklessly. The Second amendment already has those same types of restrictions: you can't shoot up your neighbors property, you can't shoot wildly into a crowd, you can't shoot others without real cause.
The First Amendment is never limited as to who can exercise that right. You can type or say as many words as you want and you don't have to attend a class and AT LEAST AT THIS POINT NEED a permit and permission from the government to exercise that right. Those that use safety of others as a reason to infringe your Second Amendment rights may use the same types of logic to restrict other rights. So, I worry about our brother and sister firearm owners that are willing to give up part of their inalienable right for some sort of perceived increase in safety.
The same type of logic could be used to limit your Fourth amendment rights. To protect others we the government need to search your property, computers, etc,. before issuing you permit to obtain a safety deposit box to secure your papers.
Okay that was my ramble for the day...carry on.