It’s interesting how mixed my feelings have become about old Stars and Stripes, given the tyrants that now stand behind it.
I had also, like you, shifted my allegiance to the Gadsden to a certain extent until my mother passed recently and I inherited the flag used to drape the coffin of her second husband who fought with the Marines throughout Guadalcanal. It’s too big to fly, but it’s a damned imposing presence, unsullied by the usurpers who have only recently dragged it through the mud.
I think I now like the Gadsden flying below the Stars and Stripes. For me, the AR-15 is clearly understood and therefore unnecessary, and would be an M1A anyway, but I can certainly appreciate the sentiments, and the reaction it would evoke from the leftists.
I remember very well the first time in my life I was ashamed of the USA.
It was the bombing of innocent Christian men, women and children from 30,000 feet in Serbia that did it for me.
We bombed radio and TV stations, railroad depots and bridges, even hospitals.
I can no longer pledge my allegiance to the evil State or they flag they fly.