Introducing The Tragedy Flag: The First Ever Flag Made To Stay At Half-Staff
Are you sick and tired of mass shootings? Do you yearn for cogent gun control laws, but know that deep down that they’ll never come? Does bringing your flag to half-staff day after day after day make your heart (and back) ache? If so, then you need The Tragedy Flag: the first ever flag made to stay at half-staff.
In 2021, there were 691 reported mass shootings, or about 1.9 mass shootings per day (per Gun Violence Archive). That’s a lot! With each mass shooting comes the inevitable 24 hour news cycle wherein each side spouts the same rhetoric while completely losing focus on the victims, many of which are often children. Sad, right? When it does come time to actually mourn those who were lost, most Americans find themselves unsure of what to do. You could write an angry Facebook post calling for immediate and absolute societal change? Sure, that could work, but think about all of those notifications you’ll get. Hey, you could dust off the old art supplies and organize a march around your subdivision. Not a bad idea, but what if it rains on the day you planned the march? Or, you can do what you’ve always done in the past and will continue to do in the future, you can march out to your flagpole in the wee hours of the morning and bring old glory down to her most natural 21st century state: half-staff. But with the…
