If this started happening to lots of CEOs, you’d suddenly see gun control laws have Republican support, just like magic.
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Chappelle joked once that if black people want to see serious gun control in the US all they need to do is buy a gun themselves.
It's not really a joke, the pro gun Black Panthers are why the Northeast and California have stricter gun laws.
And that legislation was brought by none other than Ronald Reagan.
I'm starting to think that this Reagan guy might actually have been a bit of a jerk
Behind the Bastards epidode. Their bit on Nancy is WILD if remotely true. https://youtu.be/RrY2V07sB78?si=rB3UjFsJI_5ZK1mP
Robert tends to do pretty great research and the stuff about Nancy wasn't exactly a closely guarded secret. Those two really were two shits in a bowl
If they were shooting up board rooms instead of classrooms we’d have gun control yesterday.
United Health, under the leadership of this genius, is responsible for thousands of deaths, a massive data breach, and all around predatory business practices
They also used "AI" to deny a bunch of claims. Fuck this guy and whoever replaces him. Insurance companies should be dismantled. They're a scourge on society.
What the shooter did = straight up murder.
What the victim did = sorta, kinda, mass murder, but also legal because the US is a broken country.
Thousands and one deaths
There's got to be like what, 100million suspects?
Mask, disappeared on a bicycle in the early morning hours? The likelihood of this remaining an unsolved murder is incredibly high unless the guy decides to announce why he did it
This guy knew what he was doing. Probably didn't carry a cell phone and I wouldn't be surprised if the silencer turns out to be homemade. Reminds me of the movie "Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai". Where the hitman did a bunch of practical things to keep from being traced.
You'll probably start seeing CEOs with heavy security details from here on out.
There was another story about a wealthy CEO being gunned down in a posh area of New York City. Everyone said it was an example of street crime being out of control but it turned out to be one of his wealthy business partners. Could be the same case here.
I think the bullets were a preexisting medical condition.
NY Post is a right wing shitrag. I literally have it blocked at a network level it's such a fucking bad source.
The likelihood of this being a targeted attack is near zero and this is NY Post trying to get the wealth class scared that people are going to target them so they can justify a pretext for more law enforcement "protection" of "special" people like this guy.
They know they deserve to be targeted so they're working on massaging the media to promote the idea that they need protection before real targeting happens.
The first two outlets to report on this and say it was targeted were NY Post and fucking Bloomberg. Both right wing shitrags with vested interest in protecting the wealth class.
Here is a follow up from Reuters without claims of a targeted attack.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/unitedhealthcare-ceo-fatally-shot-ny-post-reports-2024-12-04/
Says the shooter had a suppressor. I don't think random muggers do.
shooter had a suppressor
Well that's really polite in terms of noise. Maybe it was a Canadian hitman. Manners, you know.
Your assumptions show your biases against random muggers. You should be more open-minded.
^Does this need an /s? I’m gonna put an /s, just in case^
Sure, but the police are saying it was targeted. And it's being reported all over. https://abc7news.com/shooting-man-shot-midtown-manhattan/15622426/
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They may have added the "targeted" info afterwards. From that Reuters article you linked:
New York Times reported that police view the attack as targeted.
Ok, what's the deal with this guy? Evil health corpo or good dude?
Bad.