“I think I would opt for living in a free state.”
Interesting that you used that nomenclature, “free state”.
Perhaps you’d be interested in this post I just put up today:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2997788/posts?page=6#6
I'm talking in the context of 2013, not 1857. The article was about the blatant attempt to violate a family's Constitutional rights by attempting to harass the head of the house to open his safe and provide his firearms to the police for "inspection", even though there was no reasonable cause. Today's New Jersey is a socialist hellhole that violates our Constitution and Bill of Rights on so many levels. New Jersey residents are more subjects than free people.