Has the President ordered flags to half-staff in honor of the Chattanooga victims?

[Geoff R. Casavant]

Someone on my Facebook feed posted that question -- specifically why hasn't he done so?

I can find no reference to an order to lower flags, and it seems like something that would have been done as a matter of course in such tragic circumstances. So easy to do, and so difficult to explain a delay.

Can anyone help me out?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

1. No

I work in a building where we have a flag and have kept an eye out for that.

Most of the flag orders seem to come from the states nowadays. Like if a local soldier is killed overseas.

[ChazII]

2. From Snopes

Some have speculated that the lack of a presidential proclamation might be because as tragic and senseless as they were, the Chattanooga deaths involved members of the U.S. armed forces who are considered to have been killed in the line of duty (unlike the other mass shooting events referenced above, which involved civilian deaths), and while individual states often lower their flags to honor local natives or residents who die in the service of their country, doing so at a national level would require the President to pick and choose among service deaths to decide which to so honor. However, that speculation seemingly runs counter to the fact that President Obama did issue a proclamation directing the lowering of U.S. flags after the November 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, that left thirteen people dead and another thirty-two wounded (both military and civilian, although predominantly the former).
Read more at http://m.snopes.com/2015/07/19/chattanooga-flags-half-staff/#lDrCoBFQGFJCKvqq.99