Alabama county refuses to lower flag to honor Orlando shooting victims

[spanone]

FUCK YOU tucker dorsey.

Washington (CNN)Alabama county officials refused to lower flags to half-staff to honor the victims of the Orlando mass shooting this week even after President Barack Obama and Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley ordered flags to be lowered.

Citing the U.S. Flag Code, Baldwin County Commissioner Tucker Dorsey told CNN affiliate WPMI that while his "heart certainly goes out to the victims and their families," the incident "doesn't meet the test of the reason for the flag to be lowered."

Dorsey added that the code states that the flag is to be lowered on Memorial Day and to commemorate the deaths of government officials.

In a Facebook post published Tuesday, Dorsey wrote that Baldwin County also didn't lower the flags after the Paris terror attacks last November and the shooting in San Bernardino, California last December by a married couple who pledged allegiance to ISIS.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/17/politics/alabama-county-refuse-lower-flag-orlando/index.html

[sheshe2]

1. I agree with your...

sentiment of Dorsey.

[shenmue]

2. Fuck them

[Vinca]

3. We might as well keep the flags at half staff permanently.

Every week we lose a jumbo jet-sized load of people to gun violence. Orlando was only a fraction of the weekly tally.

[gratuitous]

4. Because of course they do

They're not going to lower the flags because they think it will make liberals mad. Which means they are wrong, as usual, when it comes to figuring out what other people think. But they'll high-five each other and yuk it up, not knowing that the real reason people are discomfited is because the Baldwin County Commissioners don't think their own farts stink.