Misrepresenting our Founding Fathers (to include other notable free-thinkers)

[Bad Writer]

Take this CNN article I just read about Thomas Jefferson and see for yourself how the debate on guns has brought our "paradoxical" 200-year old man to the forefront of the discussion when, in many cases, he should not be included at all.

Why not? Jefferson is often quoted during debates over the first amendment. He is after all the person credited with the phrase "building a wall of separation between Church & State." If his opinion of the meaning of the first amendment is relevant why would his opinion of the second amendment be any less so?

I would also be careful with CNN's suggestion that we change the law. After all if a super majority of the population were to decide the second amendment needs to be changed to do away with the right to keep and bear arms, what is to keep the seventy plus percent of Americans that identify as Christians from changing the first amendment to declare the US a Christian nation should they desire to do so?

I think you're missing the point of the article. We should never cherry pick anything, and, that being said, we shouldn't take anything he says as an authoritative statement. However, Separation of Church and State is an idea that transcends generations, and though it's interesting that Jefferson spoke so highly of it back then, I think it's more important that we keep talking about it...not because the Founding Fathers said it, but because it's right.