Golden Tongues and Silver Bullets

Freedom of speech is less about freedom from suppression when more about freedom toward mutual dialogue, cooperatively held impression to co-invest in active democratic hope. Perhaps this is why First Amendment non-violent communication values grow in heart-felt significance as Second Amendment rights to bear violent arms recede in multicultural salience safety security sanity. This causal hypothesis feels further supported by First Amendment's second part, freedom to peacefully assemble, More likely peace found through cooperative dialogue than lost, again, through ballistic debate, whether presidential or non-presidential, featuring the sound of my own heated voice drowning active hopes of all others present here and now longing to be heard and known reminded we belong First together Not Second to bear arms and words, weapons against each other. Having the right does not make it right to be violently and egotistically wrong.