Friday, Selma lost another son. It lost another citizen to a criminal act; an act settled with a gun.

Far too many times, we sit here at the newspaper and try to determine what the best headline for a story will be. We have simply run out of any creativity when it comes to another shooting, another murder.

Saturday’s edition was adorned by a simple headline to mark the senseless shooting, the selfish taking of another’s life. It simply read, “One Killed.” What else could we have said?

What else could we have written that would have had more of an impact?

What could we have said that would have made a difference or changed a culture in Selma that longs to settle arguments at the point of the gun rather than a series of words?

The answer is nothing.

Until the community as a whole — the entire community — stands up to this criminal element, this culture, then we will unfortunately continue to see headlines that are far too simply written, with far too tragic a meaning.