Steven Seward wrote:
Perhaps you are not aware, but Americans enjoy the strongest freedoms of speech of any country in the World. No other country has such a solid right of freedom of speech, and that includes Canada and Australia.
Life is about finding the correct balance between the rights of the individual and the rights of others whom might be impacted.
Recent domestic violence murders/sulcide in Australia highlight the need to stop these murders before they happen. This is an obvious situation where the rights of the perpetrator should not take precldence over the rights of the victims. His rights were protected up to the point where he poured petrol over his family and set them on fire.
There have to be checks and balances in place so that one person's rights do not override others. Look at the all too frequent mass murder shootings in the USA. The rights of the individual to carry a firearm has to be balanced against the rights of others to be protected and not loose their lives.