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Not really.  Liberals and libertarians want to exempt individuals from societal norms- particularly with things like religion, sex and drug use.  This creates societal instability and is thus a form of anarchy.

Again not really.  Libertarians seem to worship guns and they don’t want any restrictions on the number or type of weapons that an individual can own.  But no government can recognize any right of the governed to be as well-armed as the government is and maintain its own sovereignty.  The government has legitimate authority to regulate weapons because the government has a right to suppress any violent rebellion against its sovereignty (just as the governed have a right to engage in violent rebellion when no other course for redress is available).  Liberals and conservatives want government regulation of private use of weapons, although we differ in the details.

Not from a conservative’s point of view.  Aberrant sexual activity and drug abuse both leads to chaos and so disrupt society to the point that society has a right to prohibit them by law.  We know from history that stable functional families are one of the chief pillars of society.  Disrupt the family and all Hell breaks loose.

This would depend entirely on how the relationship between the government and the governed is set up.  Americans and Brits have a thousand-plus year history of taking for granted their right to criticize their government.  Americans and Brits are not a docile people; we are not easily cowed by fear or force.  This cannot be said for the rest of the world.