The Seattle Times editorializes following the shooting at Cascade Mall:

The images from the scourge of mass shootings are now numbingly familiar. White sheets cover bodies in public places where, just moments before, people were simply going about their lives. Facebook selfies become memorial photos. Resolute police commanders report the facts, flanked by grim-faced politicians. Tears and hugs.

Twenty-one people have been killed and 11 injured in seven mass shootings in Western Washington — just this year. The latest five people added to this list on Friday just happened to be at a mall cosmetic counter in Burlington.

This is not right. This is not something society can allow to become routine — that we can become numb to.

The full editorial is available here.