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Biden orders flags to half-staff as country mourns another mass shooting: We must act By: CNN
By Kate Sullivan, Betsy Klein and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) President Joe Biden ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff on Friday in the wake of the mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility that killed at least eight people, calling gun violence an epidemic the country must address now.
It s only been two weeks since the last time Biden made such an order after a previous mass shooting, and the President noted that that incident took place on the 14th anniversary of the murder of 32 people at Virginia Tech University. Biden said gun violence pierces the very soul of our nation and urged Congress to act.
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WASHINGTON For the fourth time in less than five weeks, President Joe Biden ordered the flag at the White House to be lowered to half-staff Friday after an overnight shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis killed eight people. While we await critical details about the shooting, its motivation, and other key information, Biden said, once again, I have the solemn duty of ordering the flag lowered at half-staff at the White House, public buildings and grounds, and military posts and embassies, just two weeks after I gave the last such order.
Yet again, he said, another shooting shows why action is needed to curb gun violence through commonsense gun violence prevention legislation.
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