Also remember, things are newsworthy because they’re novel. US sees like 2 gun deaths per day and thousands due to insurance company malpractice, but this one death dominates newscycles.

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    As one user wrote on Bluesky, “The reward out for the person who shot United Healthcare’s CEO isn’t even enough to cover 1/9 of the bill we got for 28 days of radiation.”

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        You just need the balls. It’s not a technically difficult feat if you plan well.

        Most Americans are used to guns and many have served and be trained. I think I could do something like this and get away and I’ve never been around guns. If I was at a point where I wanted to do something like this then I would just plan meticulously. Anger can be a great motivator.

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          You also have to have the technical know-how and acumen to understand that your phone is a tracking device. Leave it at home. Your car also likely has a tracking device on it because car companies are selling that data. There are license plate cameras everywhere too, even if you drive a 90s beater. Also bullet ballistics is not a perfect science. You can also rebarrel your gun. You also want to have all this done years in advance so that when you decide you have a target, your purchases are hidden among a cloud of other things. If the gun isn’t yours, wipe it down and ditch it. Don’t leave fingerprints on the bullet casings. If they can’t place it in your hands at the time of the crime, then that leaves a reasonable doubt.

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      Maybe one knows who “he” is, but maybe one also knows other people looking somewhat similar. tipping the police to the other person makes one someone “spent” they wouldnt look into one further, because they must assume one to have “their” best interest at heart.

      Shucksh that they’re watchibg this convo tho.

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      Dude would be like Spider-Man when Toby is unconscious, carried by the train passengers, and reunited with his mask. No one said a damn thing to anyone, just carried him to safety and let him go on his way!

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      There is a way for the rest of the CEOs to avoid joining this guy. I wonder if anyone can figure it out…

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        Oh I know, expensive security detail, bullet proof cars, and remote, fortified homes?

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          It will certainly help defend them from the angry masses, but each time time they see all their defenses set out in front of them, they may still wonder if it is enough to survive. Everyone else feels the same thing when they look in their bank accounts.

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          That’ll be the worst thing they could do. If this gunman couldn’t get to the CEO, do you honestly think that would be the end of it? Nope, CEOs cant protect everyone they care about. Not endorsing this but a CEO killed this man’s loved one. In response he killed the CEO but revenge has a way of consuming a individual until they feel satiated.

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            but revenge has a way of consuming a individual until they feel satiated.

            So does destroying millions of lives for profit, yet that’s not only legal, but enabled and encouraged.

            Revenge isn’t the problem here, and trying to make it that, is shifting responsability from those it belongs to, for them.

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    This is an I’m spartacus moment. Everybody in america should be doing their utmost to ensure the authorities have an overwhelming amount of information and leads to follow to ensure that the investigation eventually concludes with the result most in the interests of the people.

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      I don’t trust em–i bet they’ll renege at the first opportunity. This shit’s a game to them (or at least it was)

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        I’m fascinated by the fact that this company is so evil that some people aren’t sure if I made this up or not.

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          I’ve been stuck on the word “free”. I’m not sure I want to know the answer to whether companies usually charge for appeals.

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    I love when the largest police force in the world has to [normal part of police work].

    Dont snitch btw, mans a hero.

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    There is no way I snitch if this guy’s kid or mom were killed by this company’s CEO greed and decisions, and no court or system would bring him justice. let them fix the system which kills people lives first

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      If I serve on his jury, I’ll for sure push for nullification.

      Sure he broke a law, we can all acknowledge that.

      But was he wrong? (Based on the overall reaction I’d argue society doesn’t think so, and that’s where laws come from) Or are the laws, allowing things to get to a place where this is understandable behavior, wrong?

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        Self defense. He wasn’t wrong, he was forced to act because someone else was using deadly force against millions of Americans.

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          I don’t think self defense could be stretched that far, honestly.

          But that’s why jury nullification exists. His actions were legally wrong but morally/situationally not, so you let them walk.

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            I don’t know if it really matters. Earlier this year Palestine Action got released despite having no defence because the judge wouldn’t allow them to argue they had to break the law to protect life and property.

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      Be sure to only submit one tip per phone number / IP address and take real numbers (Address, phone number, etc) then fudge them a little, it makes it much harder to filter out (my job used to be filtering tips like this). Area code needs to match tip area, for example.

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    Reminder: Snitches get stitches, and those stitches may not be covered by your insurance.