You are 100% correct.
And yet it is sad that America has become a place where you need to prepare in 6 different ways before stepping outside your house in order to avoid being stomped on by the full power of the government.
Land of the free? No. Decidedly not.
I could not agree more with you. This is not any longer the land of the free. I want my country back!
I notice that I no longer hear comments like, “all the great freedoms we enjoy as Americans” any longer. Such comments have not made sense for a long time but it seems that now almost everyone has finally realized it. Anyone who still imagines this is a free country is pathetically deluded. It is as outdated as thinking that the manufacture of buggy whips is a booming industry.