Yes, it is and always has been. Those rights in the Bill of Rights, all of them, were bought and paid for with blood and that is part and parcel of them.
You © collective seem to want “safe”. You © don’t want freedom, you © want liberty and you © don’t want others to have the liberty to…
The two words mean different things. Freedom from … is messy, it can be very tough at times. Liberty to… not so much.
It tears my heart out every time I hear of one of these incidents, especially when children are involved. But no, I will not give up a single right, a single bit of my freedom from… Want to know why?
Because I didn’t do it.
If I set in to killing people, feel free to stand me in front of a judge and strip away every right I have.
Until then, go do it to the guilty. No prior restraint. We don’t take away rights for what somebody else did or what I might do. Only what I’m guilty of. That is the very heart and purpose of due process and the most important founding principle of this country.
You want to know why we can’t “be like other industrialized nations”? That’s why, they have liberty, we have freedom. That’s American Exceptionalism.
No prior restraint.
