Robert C. Koehler: Ubuntu or collective suicide
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Nov 23, 2022
4 minutes
I stroke the killer’s hatred and certainty, knowing the answer we all ache for — why? — will not be forthcoming.
Yes, there was another mass shooting the other day, at Club Q in Colorado Springs. A young man clothed in body armor entered the nightclub carrying an assault rifle and started shooting as a drag queen danced. In maybe two minutes he killed five people and wounded, according to some accounts, 18. Then a patron risked his life, tackled the shooter, held him immobile until police arrived.
Five people killed, a few more critically injured. This time the minority group
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