After another mass shooting, many Americans feel their efforts to stop this madness are futile. Nothing seems to ever change. Another white man kills many people and we are still encouraged to hate brown people. I refuse to hate anyone. I don’t care what color their skin is.

I will mourn today, but I will also go to work and help to put out a newspaper. I will do my part to continue to inform readers. I will think about Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Wendi Winters, Gerald Fischman, and Rebecca Smith, and how their lives were cut short because of someone else’s anger. And we will all continue to put out our newspapers.

Capital Gazette reporter Selene San Felice’s interview was raw, hones, and truthful. Listen to her voice. Listen to the entire interview.

“I’m going to need more than a couple days of news coverage and some thoughts and prayers.”

In that same video, staff writer Phil Davis spoke. For me, his poignant comment will stay with me.

If we’re in a position in society where all we can offer is prayers, then where are we? Where are we as a society where people die and that’s the end of that story.

Here is a selection of reactions I read this morning as I got up to get ready for my day. Selene is right. Thoughts and prayers are bullshit and do nothing. Do as I am. Get off your ass and write your senators and congressmen. Talk about this. Find ways to change. Find ways to make your community better.

Reuters has a wonderful article about the lives of the five – Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Wendi Winters, Gerald Fischman, and Rebecca Smith – who were killed. Read it.

And they did put out a damn newspaper today.

The editorial page is also perfect.

Tomorrow this Capital page will return to its steady purpose of offering readers informed opinion about the world around them. But today, we are speechless.