Aghast with half-staff

Sep 17, 2025
Sep 17, 2025
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Editor,

Here we are flying the flag at half-staff to pay tribute to yet another life taken away by a person with a gun.

(3) comments

HFAB Sep 17, 2025 9:27am

I would like to see a ceremony with a Medal of Honor award for each and every child who has been killed or wounded by gun violence at school. Perhaps there would be more outrage than the kind that lasts for a three-day news cycle.

Ariolimax Sep 17, 2025 9:17am

I agree that gun violence is a serious issue. However, this expression is also about the mourning of free speech in our country. History shows that nations like Germany, the Soviet Union, Cambodia, and China, where free speech was not protected, ended up with regimes that caused the deaths of millions of their own people.

MichKosk Sep 17, 2025 8:16am

You could have found this out using Chat GPT but every recent president including Donald Trump many times has ordered the flag flown at half-staff for victims of gun violence in incidents that received major national attention.

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