I go to bed to one mass shooting and wake up to another. I hope the gun lovers don’t object to my characterization of the El Paso and Dayton shootings as mass shootings, 20 and 9 dead, respectively. This follows one day after a young woman was killed by a random bullet in Kansas City at first Friday. With the Kansas City shooting being only a few blocks from a friend’s business and knowing many people who go to First Friday, we held our breaths, hoping it was no one we knew. It wasn’t, not that it matters. A young and innocent lost her life, who was on her friends list was irrelevant.

It’s little like a few years ago, I woke up and walked the dog only to find out that part of my regular route was shut off because three were shot within two blocks of my house (the last perpetrator was sentenced a few days ago). It had a pretty abbreviated time to shine as the Las Vegas shooting was the next day. It is a national travesty of our own making. It points to many other societal ills, including race, money in politics, an economy in long-term decline.

So, now is the time to mourn and to offer thoughts and prayers. The NRA still slipped in a piece of legislature that prevents the CDC from studying gun violence. Let’s not talk about the causes that’s disrespectful to the victims. Let’s just all go buy another gun, so that next time a good guy with a gun will be there.

For now, it was just a really bad day for good guys with guns.