> Fundamentally, government is violence. Is this like how libertarians say that taxation is theft? > One common formulation is that the government has the mon

> Fundamentally, government is violence. Is this like how libertarians say that taxation is theft? > One common formulation is that the government has the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. Sure. Your conclusion doesn't follow from this, however. > but we've shown that there is such a thing as a legitimate use of violence in response to speech. Even taking all the rest of your reasoning for granted, this doesn't seem relevant. TFA is explicitly about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Kirk did not make threats, certainly not per the definition of "threat" that your argument relies upon.