An Immodest Proposal

Davy Carren
4 min readJun 5, 2018

The United States Flag (otherwise and also known as Old Glory or The Stars and Stripes or The Star-Spangled Banner or That Damned Rag) should be flown at half-mast at all times on all federal and state buildings indefinitely for the reasons stated below:

1. There is no foreseeable end to tragic events involving firearms such as mass killings on school campuses and in other supposedly safe public gathering places as long as the NRA controls the means to impact and/or affect the outcomes of these aforementioned tragic circumstances.

2. Famous and honorable people (like all people) must eventually die, and will always continue to do so whether they are honored by a half-mast flag or not.

3. The cost and effort of constantly raising and lowering the flag from half- to full-mast is placing an undue burden on citizens and flag raisers.

4. A flag flying below the summit on a pole (which in many countries is seen as a symbol of respect, mourning, distress, or, in some cases, a salute) is possibly the emptiest gesture on the planet, and therefore by flying the flag at half-mast at all times the countrywomen and stateswomen and loyal jingoistic patriots and carpenters and Fuller-brush salesman and your ordinary headline skimmers and/or well-informed denizens and other un-united workers of the world alike will not be lost searching for…

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