> Because the right to free speech is working out so well for American politics these days. I am unconvinced that the state of US politics is a consequence of

> Because the right to free speech is working out so well for American politics these days. I am unconvinced that the state of US politics is a consequence of a more permissive environment for speech. > I'd wager you're talking about the right to extrajudicially murder people who you feel threatened by That's one hell of a biased way to describe the right to defend oneself. The right to self defense, and to use basic tools in aid of that defense, is indeed an inherent human right and not one that that springs from the text of some document.