It’s a little more complicated than saying this was just an apolitical act of madness.
The only two politicians Ramos had tweeted about, according to Hutson, were Donald Trump and Michael Peroutka, a wealthy neo-Confederate funder turned Maryland county councilman. Hutson has written about Peroutka, as have I. Peroutka had major funding ties to former Alabama judge and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, as well to the League of the South, whose leader, Michael Hill, had written approvingly about plans to form paramilitary groups to fight a militarized “fourth generation” culture war, one of whose targets would be the media.
“To oversimplify, the primary targets will not be enemy soldiers;” Hill wrote, “instead, they will be political leaders, members of the hostile media, cultural icons, bureaucrats, and other of the managerial elite without whom the engines of tyranny don’t run.”
I guess when you are an enemy of the state and a mass shooting happens to you and your coworkers, it would be inappropriate to fly the flag at half-staff.
While I don’t know the answer here, the flags at the airport here lower several times a year and it’s rare I can match it to any one thing making the news at the time.
Is there a website that talks about the daily flag status? I guess Google could answer this for me
I was thinking that would be a good idea for a mobile app that could make tens of dollars.
They have lowered the flag for a number of disasters. I think sometimes the federal government makes the call (9/11, the Florida school shooting, the death of Barbara Bush) and sometimes the state government decides, and I suppose potentially local government could decide.
Maybe we can fly a new additional flag. Maybe the NRA flag… and it will fly at half-staff all year except when there’s been a mass shooting. If there’s been a mass shooting it can run at full-staff. I mean, I guess we could run it at full-staff every time there’s any sort of shooting, but then the thing would never be at half-staff and people would be confused.