Since that horrible night at the Q, many of the opinion letters have been about the reasons and solutions to end things like this incident, so I thought I would put my 2 cents worth in. I picked up my tablet Sunday night and there was the usual pop-up from CNN (I have not been able to block that site) and being an information junkie I opened the article about the shooting.

Before much was known about this, CNN had listed related articles and the first one was about Focus On The Family and the hate they supposedly spew. The next day there was a letter from a woman excoriating that organization and the other religious organizations based here and their hate. Reading between the lines, I could feel her hate for the those organizations before the reason had been determined and without proof — a bit hypocritical are we.

A couple of letters stated that there have been 600 mass shootings this year. With a little research, I found that there is a group called Gun Violence Archive, supported by a rich left-wing supporter and one that the mainstream media loves. They list every shooting whether it is domestic violence or the daily shooting in Chicago, Detroit and other such places. The FBI reports 30 mass shootings this year (that is 30 too many). There have been calls for a ban on “assault weapons” like the “highly effective” ban that was imposed during the Clinton administration. The government researched and found no significant difference from when the ban was in effect and after it expired — that was why it was allowed to expire.

The first known assault weapon was the rock that Cain assaulted and killed Abel, but then again it probably was a fully semiautomatic rock. Looking at the information known today, this shooter claimed to be nonbinary, so he killed people he identified with. No racial or hate motive, I read somewhere that he said he just wanted to be the next famous mass shooter, and the media has accomplished that for him. We have to start talking to each other and work on our differences. If not this country will turn out to be something very few of us will like. I heard about a website called Unifycolorado.org. It puts people in touch electronically with people with opposing views so they can talk and get to see the other side. I have not gone there yet but intend to soon.

Tom Keilers Colorado Springs