I can only speak for myself.... but today I still have the right to do everything I did yesterday.

In my own little sphere of existence, I don't feel abused, I don't feel put upon, trampled upon, whatever. I can travel anywhere I want (except Cuba, and there are still ways around that), I can write letters to my Congressmen, to my local newspaper, to whomever I wish; and in the State of Tennessee, I can still buy a gun and get a carry permit if I want. I can still go to work and go shopping and go to the movies and get on the Internet.

And on Friday, I'm going to get tattooed again, of my own free will.

Are there people who don't want me to be able to do some of those things? Well, sure. Do I believe they will ever have enough power to stop me, or anyone else in this country, from doing them? With the exception of international travel, I say, not a chance. (I single out travel, because it has been restricted in times past, and for good reasons.)

I'm not buying it. Maybe I'm wrong. Okay. But I'm not going to fill my brain with a bunch of gloom-and-doom that can't be readily and undoubtedly documented.

Y'all's mileage may vary.