It's gotten so when there's another mass shooting, no one has anything new to say. I certainly don't. Today's was in El Paso, where it's kind of pointless to ask, "How did the shooter get the gun?" I think they sell them in vending machines in that neck of the woods or you get one free when you buy a patty melt at a Whataburger in Texas.
At the moment, they're saying there was one shooter…maybe two but one is in custody. He was apparently young and white, which means this will be treated as an isolated incident. If he was black or Muslim, that would have all sorts of significance to some people but white killers, even when they're part of known hate movements, are treated as crazed loner individuals.
As of a few minutes ago when I turned off CNN, no one seemed sure if there was that second shooter or how many people had been killed or injured. Politicians are already though writing about Thoughts and Prayers, which means they have no intention (or in some cases, desire) to do anything to stop this kind of thing from happening — as it will — someplace else and soon.
Actually, I should have said "to lessen the frequency of such incidents" because stopping them altogether is impossible. And some people like to argue that since you can't prevent every single mass shooting, there's no point in doing anything to make them less likely. It's just like how, since we can't stop everyone from driving recklessly and running over people, there's no point in stopping anyone from driving recklessly and running over people.
That's about all I've got right now. Some time ago, I adopted the position that nothing meaningful will ever be done about shootings. Yeah, it's cynical but it saves me an awful lot of disappointment.