necro, but:
1) individualism is what made the country great. the government doesn't know better than the people. think of it like this: what's better, the manager of the company telling everyone what to do, or the manager giving general directives and everyone sort of interpreting what that is and doing it? note that this works for small companies with homogeneous employees (i.e. who have to do more or less similar things), but for large companies it is a disaster. imagine if the Google CEO tried controlling what every programmer did.
2)true
3) "secularize your entire state"
America is a secular state. there are still some problems here such as politicians pushing against gay marriage, though it is largely secular.
"judaeo-christian values conflict with personal freedom"
LOL, no, they don't. christianity is very individualistic: it even provides you with an ideal hero who is pretty much the prototype of the ultimate individual: Christ.r
Christianity says, "love thy neighbour". sounds a bit like "live and let live", doesn't it?
christianity, like most religions, does have its flaws, though i'd say there are some very important concepts in christianity that *spawned* the idea of personal freedom (remember that the Judaeo-Christian world is the only society that has codified personal freedom and individuality into its law system).
btw, this conflicts with 1).
4) completely do away with public schooling and introduce a system of vouchers that people can use at a private school of their choice. also, remove income taxes and replace them with a negative income flat tax that gives people earning less money than a certain threshold a negative tax rate (so if you learn less than that threshold, you get X% of the difference between the threshold and what you make). remove social welfare and let private companies fill out the void. "most people need to understand basic physics": this is exactly why private schooling is the best, because the teachers are qualified; don't have to use the same methods as everyone else; and have the ultimate say on what the children get taught, allowing them to teach them the most useful things, without having to await government approval/legislation to change the curriculum. they only need to await approval from the CEO or headmaster or whatever you call the head of a private school.
5)
https://americangunfacts.com/
in the decade after handguns were banned in britain, the crime rate rose by 77%. also, guns are used to protect lives far more often than they are used to take one.
if you don't want a gun because you don't like the idea of shooting someone, just don't get one!
more info from the same website: with only one exception, every public mass shooting has occurred in areas where citizens COULDN'T carry guns.
in a city in georgia, after a law was passed that required the heads of households to own a gun, the burglary rate dropped 89%, whereas in the rest of Georgia it only dropped by 10%.
6) no. many national healthcare programs are a disaster, like the NHS in Britain. remove all regulation and more companies will prop up.