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Originally Posted by That Guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-mast#United_States
Upon presidential proclamation, such as for the death of Pope John Paul II,[47] the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster,[48] the victims of Hurricane Katrina,[49] the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami,[50] the deaths of Coretta Scott King[51] and Rosa Parks,[52] the Virginia Tech massacre,[53] the Fort Hood massacre,[54] the 2011 Tucson shooting, the funeral of Neil Armstrong,[55] the death of US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stephens, the 2012 shooting in Aurora Colorado, the 2012 Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting, the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings,[56] the death of Nelson Mandela,[57] the 2013 Washington, D.C. Navy Yard shooting, and the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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and then?
It's not like it wasn't lowered, if it was never lowered I can understand the issue. It was lowered the same day Congress lowered the flags.
The case with the current issue really depends on if you view this as active soldiers killed in the line of duty, to which the flag is rarely lowered in these cases, or if you view this as a 'massacre', work place violence or something similar, like the times you listed above where the flag is lowered more commonly.
Again, it's not the lowering of the flag that is the issue here, it's that people actually think it has some sort of political or ideological motivation on the part of the White House to acknowledge or deny this and then using it to generically bash the administration for not being 'Patriotic'...which is ridiculous...