The Importance of Freedom of Speech

The first amendment gives each individual person the right to speak and say their opinion without threat of being attacked. When free speech gets attacked, as it is now, when people don't have the choice of being able to defend their beliefs, that's when violence becomes a choice. "If you can't speak up, if you're going to be attacked for saying what's important to you, well, then eventually you are going to fight back," he said.