I think this is absolutely the most worthless, feel-good, patronizing ploy a crippled legislature can use to mask their impotence. It’s like a shinny medallion they’ve been holding it in their back pockets to distract the reactionaries in case of emergency right before elections. “We’ll they fumbled on school choice, borders, social security, energy, education, but ooooooow… shinny flag burning amendment…. Yes, I luv my congressmen….”
No thank you. If someone loses their mind to risk politically irrelevancy by burning a flag, let them. Our First Amendment rights give us the power to crush their ideas. Bring it on!
*** DING DING DING *** No more calls; we have a winner!
IMO, while flag burning is despicable, the banning of it is more despicalbe, it's nothing more than political correctness from our side of the ledger...nothing more than thought control, nothing more than legislating that conservatives can not be offended. It's not consistent with what we're supposed to be about - individual freedom and personal liberty. Not that those two things are valued by much of anyone today.