Reply #23: Sounds kind of like the NRA..

[sendero]

... saying "today 'assault' weapons, tomorrow all guns" doesn't it.

You have to separate the wheat from the chaff. Is the right to burn a flag essential to my free expression? Not me. It's generally just an inflammatory indulgence. There is nothing you can't say better some other way.

I really don't think opposing this is worth the political capital. I don't think the Average American is going to get your argument. And as I have said, I don't think the right to burn the flag is anything more and a symbolic right, just as burning the flag is a symbolic act that can be interpreted too many different ways.