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  • Beyond Gun Control, We Need Hatred Control

    Robert Koehler, Columnist|Jun 1, 2022

    Another terrorist slips into the classroom, into the news. Does anyone understand this? Even if guns are easily, readily available, why, why, why? I find it impossible even to be angry — it’s hard to be angry under incomprehensible circumstances. Instead, I find myself imagining George W. Bush giving a speech in which he condemns the latest horrific murders at . . . but instead of saying Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, he blurts out “Iraq.” These killers aren’t acting alone. No one acts alone. There’s a cultural and structural...