Baraka_Guru

Let's not stray too far from your statement. You said nobody can tell you what you can and can't do, which is false. It would be more accurate to say: "Outside of the law, nobody gets to tell me what I can and can't do. However, if I choose to defy the law, I must be face the consequences."

So I suppose you are free in that you can choose whether or not to obey the law. However, you aren't so free of the consequences.

Whether or not this requires a gun is another matter.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot