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There is no First Amendment protection for threatening imminent violence so I'm not sure how we have too much freedom.
If I say, "Let's get some bats and beat the crap out of those people we disagree with" it's incitement to riot and a crime. There is no protected speech there.
If I say "I'm going to kill you" it's a criminal threat and again not protected speech.
I can say "I think (fill in the blank) are subhuman and will work for their eventual extermination" because there is no imminent threat of violence in that statement regardless of how vile and repugnant most of us find it.
The First Amendment has NEVER protected mob violence so the premise of this entire thread is flawed.
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The premise of the thread is the only way we have too much freedom is when there is anarchy. A mob of people arming themselves with weapons to confront another group is anarchy. The premise is solid.
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A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.
George Washington
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