Why is flag burning offensive to you? Should it be illegal?

Answer 1

It shouldn't be illegal it is a right of the freedom of speech and expression. However, I hate the sight of the flag burning. I love my country - even with all its faults and I wouldn't live anywhere else in the world. I respect the flag and what it represents, I fought for the right for the dips***s that want to burn it, are able to do so without retaliation.

Answer 2

I find flag burning very offensive. People can call it a right to burn but what they fail to consider is that flag represents thousands of Americans that gave there life so you people can be free to debate weather it should be legal or illegal. Those people who wish to burn the flag should be deported to another country such as Iraq. Try living there for awhile and maybe then they would realize how good we have it here in this country. Americans in general are spoiled rotten brats. We should be thankful for those who that flag represents and realize that we are very lucky and privileged to live in this country. I expect some very low ratings for this answer, but I spent 9 years defending that flag and I'll be damned if I will willingly set back and watch some jerk who is to chicken to serve a hitch in the military burn our FLAG!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

Once again flag burning is offensive because it is a symbol of the nation. Yet most that want it to be illegal disrespect the flag themselves everyday according to the US Flag Code. So by making flag burning illegal because it's disrespectful, then everything the US Flag Code deems disrespectful should be made illegal, therefor most of the people that cry about making flag burning illegal will end up in jail themselves.

Answer 4

It should be illegal.

Old Glory is not just a bunch of cloth tied to a pole and painted a few colors. It is a symbol. It is representative of a story, the type you tell like it was a greek legend, of a grand experiment where a bunch of poor people migrated to a country, and fought for freedom, helped build that country ito a beacon of freedom and human rights the likes of which history had never recorded before in its pages.

It symbolizes all the vets, from the civil war and the abolition of slavery, to WWI, WWII etc. who cought shrapnell and lost limbs so that every morning america can rise in the morning as free men and women for another day. When you salute that flag you are not solution pure national allegiance based on nothing like a damn Nazi, you are soluting freedom and the embodyment of all the collective good and morrally correct concepts that this country has fought so hard to protect.

Next time you see Old Glory flying at full mast on a bright American morning, give it a salute for your forefathers, and realize what it stands for. To burn it is like to burn all the good intentions of our ancestors who wanted us to be free, to wrap up their dream of liberty and light it on fire while it lay on the floor.

I do think it should be illegal sir, for that reason.

Answer 5

It is pretty hard to get worked up over something that happens maybe once every couple of years, and which I have NEVER seen.

You know, it's a piece of cloth. To dispose of it properly you are supposed to burn it. So it is the protest part which people want to make illegal and to do so clearly would violate the first amendment.

The reason a few people may burn a flag is to make other people angry. By getting so worked up about it, people validate that motivation. If you don't get mad, then there is no reason for anyone to burn a flag.

Answer 6

That is such a weird law. I mean, it's just a flag. People burn them in protest, when their angry, upset or trying to make a statement. So they don't like the country... isn't that their right?
I would not feel comfortable burning a flag, but when I see someone else doing it, I don't think, "Those anti-American idiots."
I think, "Wow, what happened to make them so mad?"
A flag is just a thing. What it stands for may be the greatest country in the world, but the actual flag is JUST A THING!

Answer 7

It's not. And it shouldn't be. It may be an offensive jesture in some contexts, but unless the flag belongs to someone else (stealing)...or it's done in an unsafe environment (in a house or outside during a "burn ban")...I don't belive there's anything wrong with it.

Also I believe that when flags used to be "retired," like if they were worn out, they touched the ground or were flown at night, for example. They would be destroyed...usually burned.

Answer 8

If i burned a gay lib flag or a mexican flag, might you think of I actual have the spectacular to achieve this? once you burn an American flag, you're exhibiting disrespect for the loads of stable adult men who've served and died retaining the rustic and the flag. think of roughly that when you think approximately doing it. history has each and every thing to do with it, attempt examining it.

Answer 9

It's not offensive to me. I see it as legitimate free speech, one of the rights I swore to protect and defend when I was in the military.

However, if you think about it, flag-burning is really a futile and stupid gesture made by the immature and unintelligent. It is an action for people who cannot articulate a cogent thought.

Answer 10

It is not offensive to me. My COUNTRY 'tis of thee, not my flag. The flag is a symbol and has been used in protests since the first time it was raised up a pole.

Our country is not diminished by protest nor by burning the flag. Our country is diminshed when protest is FORBIDDEN and flag burning is declared illegal.