Robert C. Koehler: Where armed protest leads, we don’t want to go
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Jul 08, 2020
3 minutes
Change. Now.
I get that, and understand the symbolism of packed heat. A gun says: We mean business. But that symbolism stops as soon as the trigger is pulled. What the armed protesters could wind up with is a bitter present-day civil war and the blood-stained illusion of change.
The country — and the world — have been in the midst of a social uprising for the past month and a half, ignited by the brutal police killing of George Floyd. The global protests against structural racism have been racially diverse and, for the most part
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