The need for such legislation is self-evident. Colin Kaepernick works for a business. This business offers entertainment to the public at large, and should not discriminate against particular members of the community by allowing its employees to show such blatant disrespect.

Veterans and law enforcement personnel shouldn’t have to suffer this stigma and humiliation. How can we even call ourselves a free nation when these men and women can’t even walk into a football stadium without feeling denigrated?

Obviously, every law includes consequences for violations. So let’s settle on fines of up to $2,500, up to six months in jail, and three years’ probation for every day that an individual violates that law.

At first glance, subjecting someone to fines of up to $912,500 over the course of a year might sound severe. But it’s a small price to pay for a society of utopian tolerance, in which no one is forced to encounter words and acts they don’t like.

There’s only one problem: an archaic writing that says something about our inherent right to free expression. It’s called the First Amendment.