Personal Freedom

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights..."

The second paragraph of the US Constitution explain that everyone have certain rights that cannot be taken away from them; those rights being life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which is in fact Thomas Jefferson's rewrite of John Locke's "Life, Liberty, and Property". We are all given and ensured of our rights in the Constitution; the "Bill of Rights" which refers to the first 10 Amendments in the Constitution is perhaps the most important section of the constitution itself. The first 10 Amendments were all created after the action the British Parliament imposed to the English colonists residing in Colonial America back before the days of the republic.

For example, the British "Quartering Act" during the Revolutionary War forced colonist to quarter British soldiers in their homes without their consent. The Third Amendment restricts soldiers from being quartered in a private home during war or during peacetime.

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

After the 9/11 terrorist attack, the US Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent disasters like 9/11 by improving national security. Organizations like the National Security Agency were created, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations and Central Intelligence Agency were allowed to go full throttle to promote national security. The NSA, FBI, CIA, and the federal government all stressed more security, for the price of freedom. On another note, recent homicides and terrorism spawn new stereotype due to their fear

You may have a hobby like me, where firearms is your things. Taking apart firearms and air rifles to study their anatomy comes natural; you're a gun-nut by nature.

But one sentence of "yeah, I like firearms" to your friends result in everyone else thinking your going to shoot up the school. I fit the perfect frame for a criminal, especially when you're black, tall, likes guns, and my normal face looks like I'm plotting a murder. Thanks guys.

You may know someone who's from Syria, maybe even know that their parents were murdered by terrorists and escaped to the US to live a better life. They tell you how Americans treat you like you're a piece of dog doo-doo. They blame you for something that you have no correlation to. They hate you because you speak the language, you believe the same gods, and you share the same skin color. They loathe you, because you offend their freedom to live a peaceful life.

Since people are taught at a young age that you have rights, you feel frustrated or offended when you are denied from them. This frustration is caused by insecurity and fear of being powerless, unprotected, and vulnerable, which then get expressed with anger, more fear, and anxiety. Fear is the greatest cause of violence. We fight and kill because we fear defeat. We segregate because we fear their existence. We shun those with different religion because we fear their gods and practices. We fight wars because in a battlefield, you won't feel fear when you know your enemy is already dead. "Fear is the only thing we have to fear" (Frankin D. Roosevelt), and absolute freedom is never achievable.