Freedom Comes With Responsibility
Think back to the day you got your driver's license. A new freedom landed in your hands, and attached to it came a set of obligations you couldn't hand off to anyone else. Who pays the ticket when you speed? Who answers for the wreck when you drive carelessly? You did then, and you do now. That pairing never goes away.
A lot of people get loud about their right to act however they please. But stretch that logic and it falls apart fast. If someone's religion tells them that nonbelievers deserve death, does freedom of religion give them license to kill innocent people? Nobody sane would say yes. The right exists; the right to harm others in its name does not.
Free speech has drifted into strange territory. The American flag can be burned and trampled in public with little pushback, yet in some places people are told they cannot fly it on their own property. The arguments over the Confederate flag follow the same pattern. I'll say plainly: I can put one up on land I own, and if I choose to, I will.
Look at which beliefs seem free to spread and which seem to be squeezed out. Christianity feels like it is being pushed toward the margins, while other groups, including Muslims and atheists, get room to promote themselves openly and press their views on people who don't share them. If that's the direction things are heading, which set of beliefs is quietly becoming the default for the country, and why should its expression be the one that nobody is ever allowed to limit?
Consider how some Jewish people handle keeping kosher. They run kosher butcher shops and kosher restaurants, and they don't demand that everyone else shop there, work there, or eat there. They also accept that their own conscience narrows where they can work or eat, and they live with that limit. Compare that to the cases where some Muslims who won't eat pork push to stop butcher shops and restaurants from serving pork at all, so that they can work or eat in those places. One group absorbs the cost of its own convictions. Why shouldn't the other?
The rule holds across every right. You can own a weapon and use it to defend yourself inside certain boundaries. Does that mean you may fire it whenever and however you feel like it? No. If you won't take responsibility for how you exercise a right, you still have to live with what follows from it. That part isn't optional.