Similarly, M4’s, M16’s and AK’s were never envisioned by the founders. Cable news, blogs and broadcast TV were also not envisioned. So the right to bear arms only applies to muskets and Bowie knives and the freedom of the press applies only to one sheet broadsides. Your argument is childish despite soaring rhetoric.
Freedom to practice ones religion is a right, not subject to your approval or Obamas approval. There is no right to practice terrorism or treason. Try to understand the difference. Or not. I don’t much care.
It applies to military weapons.
“Similarly, M4’s, M16’s and AK’s were never envisioned by the founders. Cable news, blogs and broadcast TV were also not envisioned.”
But unlike the things that you just mentioned Islam was very well known to the founders. It was very much “envisioned”.
The Battle of Vienna, the turning point in Islam’s invasion of Europe, had occurred only 100 years earlier. It was closer in time to the founders than the Civil War is to us. The attacks by Muslims of the Barbary States on the ships of Christian nations, including those of America, were a fact of life.
The founders weren’t creating some ethereal philosophical document with the Bill of Rights. They were dealing with real world issues which in some states were disputes between official established churches versus dissenting Christian sects. And to a lesser extent Jewish congregations. But they never had to take into account Islam and its fundamental conflict with western freedom, not to mention its 1,000 year war against Christianity.
Some here want Trump to close mosques and also kick Muslim American citizens out of the country. If a president could do that, Obama would have already closed down Christian Churches and kicked Christians out of the country. I’m a Catholic, wear a Christian medal necklace every day, so he would likely deport me first.
Obama can’t do that and neither can Trump close mosques and deport Muslim people due to their religion. Some here should read and understand the first amendment to the US Constitution:
“The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.”