And he was right. ideally I'd prefer to live in a country where no citizen would desire to desecrate our flag, but I always was reluctant to see that made into a law. But we live in such a whack world where you can't burn a rainbow/BLM flag but the US Flag is just fine to destroy.

To me - it's more a matter of public safety, property destruction and burning permits - plenty of avenues to limit such things without addressing it as a "speech" issue.