Robert C. Koehler: The heart is mightier than the sword
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
May 19, 2022
4 minutes
They’re coming for me!
Sounds like a horror movie on permanent rewind through the brain, through the soul. Catch your breath, buy a gun. What other choice do you have? It’s called, among other things, “white replacement theory” — but my sense is that the fear itself (fear of God-knows-what) comes first. When it finds a name, what a sense of relief that must be: knowing who the enemy is, where the enemy lives. Now you can go to war.
Killing 10 people at a grocery store — killing 50 people at two mosques—isn’t murder. It’s healing.
I take a deep breath. Violence is situation normal, not
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