It is Sunday afternoon.  I chose not to write in the morning.  I started the day late.  I read an essay that waited in my computer bag, while the fog of my mind slowly dissipated.  Nowadays there is abundant news of tragedy and mayhem somewhere.

Should the newspapers be criticized for reporting on the work that yet needs to be done?  That is, – your work and my work?  If I conclude this place in time is violent, with rampant injustice, do I not have a voice?  Ought I not support the work that needs to be done?

Here is an excerpt from a NPR report of the murder of five individuals, and wounding of eighteen more at Club Q, in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Saturday night.

The gunfire came on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual observance on Nov. 20 to commemorate the transgender people who have lost their lives because of anti-transgender violence.

The attack is the latest in a long string of shootings targeting the LGBTQ community. In 2016, a gunman opened fire in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. killing 49 people and injuring dozens of others. It is considered one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.

Police are still determining whether the attack is hate crime…

The last statement certainly is not editorial opinion of a NPR reporter, but of the obtuseness of law enforcement authorities who are mandated with impartial enforcement of our laws.  How is it possible to overlook the timing and the lethality of the attack?  Is Colorado a Red state? I understand that Colorado is recently trending Blue.  The old-guard defenders of the status quo are not going to go quietly or non-violently.

A solution that I support: collect the guns, especially the hand guns and the assault weapons.  These are man-killing weapons by design.  Collect them up with no exceptions.  We cannot live in a civilized society which is armed to the teeth.  What about the Second Amendment of the Constitution?  The Constitution is not sacred, and no text ought to stand in the way of saving innocent lives.

What is not spoken out loud. – the dark shape that looms large over the whole of our society…