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I voted for it being legal but my answer is complex.

It should be illegal to incite violence, and laws against burning things in general should be obeyed. If it's not legal to start a campfire on the courthouse steps, it's not legal to burn a flag there.

In the present context, burning an American flag is an act of willfully ignorant disrespect. Anyone who does so earns my contempt.

Anyone who does so in the sight of a veteran is reprehensible.

I don't have to like a moron to support his rights, though, at least in principle. In practice I'd be a lot more likely to help save the flag than debate Voltaire's defense to the death of the disagreeable. My philosophical purity probably wavers in the light of how I was raised by a caring Mom and a World War II veteran. I can live with that.