I see what you're getting at but I don't want the government making smoking illegal either. Just because the Nanny State movement commits a wrong doesn't give conservatives a reason to commit a wrong.
I wouldn't want to see poor flag burners inhale toxic burning ink used to stain the stars and strips into each flag. It could harm them. Maybe if we came up with harmless burning ink it would be ok.
I've never yet met a reformed flag burner. It needs looking into.
Yep - more government programs are needed to protect and reform the brainless.
There are multitudes of laws currently in place that infringe on our constitutional rights and A flag amendment will probably also cross the constitution.
With the above in mind, I'd prefer we protect the flag and protect and create our icon.
Like I said - just because the Left has no respect for the Constitution, gives the Right no excuse to violate it.
I have been wrestling with this for decades.
Do I rejoice in knowing a personal right is preserved never to be tested, that when exercised, turns my stomach, insults my pride, and is an act specifically reserved to denigrate my country and belittle my family's way of life?
Or do I rejoice in knowing my Democratic Republic has accepted or maybe excepted a specific right for the preservation of national honor and civil rest?
For it or against it, no patriot is going to stand by while some jerk torches a flag. So, the question is who goes to jail? The flag burner or the patriot who gave him a beating for exercising his 1st amendment?
If you said both, we all win! Don't we?