Robert C. Koehler: How safe can we really be?
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Jan 12, 2023
4 minutes
It was the guacamole’s fault!
That’s the guy’s defense, anyway — that plus his right to carry four handguns, an AR-15 and a 12-gauge shotgun into a supermarket in Atlanta. Oh yeah, and he was wearing body armor. This was in March 2021, barely a week after an actual mass shooting at several massage parlors in Atlanta, in which eight people were killed. And it was only two days after a mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, where 10 people were killed.
When another customer saw the guy in the store’s bathroom, with the AR-15 propped against a asked in a story about the incident nearly two years later: Did he break the law?
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