Being free means being unconstrained in choosing how to live your life, how to allocate your own resources. Being free means being able to choose without compulsion from the options available to you, including working to create other options. Being free does NOT mean getting your own way.
Agree.
Being free does NOT mean the right to remove those choices from others.
What happens when others remove choices from you?
If anyone has exhausted all means at his disposal and cannot order society to his liking, then yes, I expect him to "take it" in the position of his choice.
The we agree to disagree. I think someone should take it until they can't take it any longer.
There is no amount of lobbying or letter-writing that earns for one the right to kill those who disagree.
Never said there was. It's not the disagreement though, it's the effect of that disagreement. For example, if I disagree with you about leaving my house to burn with my kids in it, and they end up dieing and/or burned, don't expect me to just take it. I'm not going to sue, waste time in court, blah blah blah....you're now going to experience what my kids felt, simple as that.
We cannot all have our way with society; many of us will necessarily be disappointed.
Agree, to a point. And when someone becomes so disgusted and fed up after exhausting all the non-violent options available to him her...
If those disappointed persons turn to violence, then we have civil war, at some scale, whereupon even more people cannot have their way.
...we have this. And there's nothing wrong with that IMO. A good house cleaning when cleaning needs to be done is good for the country.
And if our political representatives live in fear of the populace, they will do what those in power have always done when they fear the populace: they will act to remove the threat to themselves, to disarm us and oppress us to the point we no longer pose a threat to them.
In case you haven't noticed, many of our politicians already try and do that (gun grabbers, excessive police force, etc.). In the US, they'll never disarm the populace. EU obviously they will, but that's EU, it's their own problem and fault.
Chuck