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No. It is an expression of opposition to something American. And that expression is precisely what the second amendment was designed to protect. A national flag is the epitome of a political symbol. It represents a nation-state , its governmental institutions, and the geographical region defined by borders established and defended by a political body as well as a set of cultural associations reflected in our society. If you are burning the American flag, or the confederate flag, or the gay pride flag, or your state flag, or the Mexican flag, you are definitely expressing something with political overtones. Its probably not up to you or me to say exactly what. We will have to ask those who want to burn it in public, what it is intended to symbolize for them while they burn it. If they say that the property that they own now symbolizes the militarism of our government, or the Trump administration, or a Corporate oligarchy, then that is what is symbolizes to them when they burn their own piece of cloth. The fact that it is our national symbol just means it is more provocative to us.I voted no. Since the flag is the symbol of our country and our country's constitution is the entity that guarantees free speech it would seem that burning the flag is symbolically destroying free speech. IF one feels the country needs changing then the tools and procedures to affect those changers are guaranteed by the constitution which is the framework of our freedom.
Whoever purchased or owns it, gets to decide what it means when they destroy it.
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