Free speech.
Speech is freer in Israel and Switzerland? In the US you can walk around adorned in swastikas proclaiming the awesomeness of Adolph Hitler. It will offend a lot of people, obviously, but in Israel or Switzerland, this will also land you in prison because it is illegal. How is that freer than the US?
Freedom of economic liberty. Personal liberty.
These are too vague to respond to.
A gun ban, magazine ban, attempt at universal registration... These are "last straws".
justice14 has pointed out that there is no visible movement on gun control in DC. The only viable suggestion I heard was a reinstatement of a previously-existing "assault weapons ban." I don't think I need to reiterate how stupid that law was (or would be), but I can factually point out that it was in force for many years without sparking a revolution.
I agree with some of your broad notions of liberty and the necessity to defend it, but I don't think this country is anywhere near the point where that is going to happen... and I'm pretty skeptical because I heard all this when Clinton was elected and none of it happened then, either.
Finally, I have yet to hear a realistic hypothetical scenario that ends in anything other than a Waco-style standoff and media circus. When we all "rise up," who are we supposed to follow? How do we know who is friend or foe? Should I run out and stage an armed takeover of the DMV? How is this supposed to work? I guess I could join a militia group of some kind, but who should we ally with when the SHTF? Why should we trust someone else's militia group?
There will be no Waco standoffs. What there will be is coast-to-coast bands of folks hunting random gun grabbing legislators and litigators. Lather, rinse, repeat until they leave us alone.
It isn't going to be a "stand up fight". There will be no Civil War type armies marching around in uniform. There will be no massive National militia movement call up that will march on Washington with banners flying...
Forget what you think you know or that you may have seen in the movies. Reality isn't a movie...
This.
Well said.