Half-Staff Nation: The United States of Slaughter
4 min readApr 25, 2021
Should President Biden just go ahead and order all U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff until further notice? Without a doubt, the next mass shooting is coming any day. They now occur so frequently the memorials blur together.
Between honoring the more than half a million Americans who have died of COVID-19, the victims of mass shootings, and the late former vice president Walter Mondale, Biden has ordered flags lowered to half-staff six times since he was inaugurated.