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I like how you ignored the part about hate speech to justify the double standard, the same double standard that exists in France. Basically if you want to shit on Muslims you're a hero but don't you dare desecrate the flag or engage in anti-Semitism. I'm not even against the double standard, its natural for countries to hold their national symbols in high regard and given France's unique history with the Jewish people its understandable they'd have unique sensitivity to anti-Semitism. That's not wrong, just get off your high horse when it comes to "muh freedom of speech!"
It is not a double standard, no rights are absolute (none that I've examined) and may have exceptions to them. Hate speech is not illegal unless it is used to incite, a person cannot walk in to a mosque and slaughter a pig and call it free speech, a person cannot piss on a Quran in front a bunch of Muslims and think he is protected, in both those examples the person would be arrested for incitement. Now a person may draw a picture of Mo as long as they are not doing it to incite as we are not bound by Sharia blasphemy laws.
That's plain wrong, handgun bans have been struck down as unconstitutional.
Well people that believe in a full ban of hand guns could not recite the Oath of Allegiance honestly then, they should not get citizenship
Again Americans do not really derive their morals from the Constitution, that's a fiction you've invented here. We're bound to it by law but that doesn't mean our individual morality aligns with it and in the case of many Americans there are tensions such as the case of flag desecration, hate speech, views on guns and so on.
We are bound by our Oath to protect and defend our Constitution, if a person cannot recite those words honestly they do not belong here as our Constitution is what makes us American.