I would think that all of those would pale in comparison to being someone's slave.
BTW, you don't get shot for having a barrel too short. I know someone who got busted for it and all he got was a fine.
Tell that to Randy Weaver's wife.
I would think that all of those would pale in comparison to being someone's slave.
What is slavery but being denied the fruits of your labors - to labor for someone else without compensation, and not be able to change the situation? With the various taxes that the greedy government and its endless sea of busybody bureaucrats plunder and squander, ever more of your time is spent as a slave. You have the freedom to move about the country, but you still have to surrender your hard earned cash to federal state and local government so that they can wax fat on it.
When the government considers tax cuts as "spending" then you know that they consider you and everything that belongs to you as theirs.