I respect the man for being civil and listening to your stances. Good on him. However, his idea of freedom is so impotent, stale, and boring that I threw up in my mouth when I heard him define it. The Constitution does not enumerate human freedoms! The Constitution enumerates restrictions on government, not people. However, it is no surprise to hear a statist posit such an interpretation, which pretends that the only possible human action is under the letter of the law.
Nonetheless, Respec for my man for taking a logical beating like that and still standing at the end.
Agreed, and government grows too big when we do not have checks and balances and separations of powers and especially as federal government rises over state and local level governments. We need more freedoms, competitions, and freedom comes to some extent from God, or if there is no god, than maybe freedom should not come from to some extent or at all from government to say the least.