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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

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Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

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Post by Molitor5901 »

thewinnie wrote: post #291
sergiotapia wrote: post #283

Just saw video of the shooting on X, the guy was cool as a cucumber. Racking a new round after every shot. Not a hint of desperation, fear or anxiety. He didn't even run off after shooting. https://x.com/Tr00peRR/status/1864376034465890417

Why did he reload every shot? Is it self made pistol? My best guess that insurance haven't paid his enough to buy glock17

Perhaps subsonic rounds that did not have enough charge to drive the slide. It looks like there may be a suppression device on the end. My first thought was home made.

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Post by HDThoreaun »

mossTechnician wrote: post #166
HDThoreaun wrote: post #67

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"Americans consume too much healthcare"? I'm afraid to guess the logical conclusion to this, but I will counter with "Americans are offered two little preventative healthcare", because in more advanced countries where that is an option, the costs are lower.

The conclusion is that we need to get rid of fee for service so that doctors stop prescribing things that dont work. Getting rid of fee for service also increases the amount of preventative healthcare people receive as providers realize its cheaper to do preventative than massive surgery down the line.

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Post by Zigurd »

jerlam wrote: post #305
sergiotapia wrote: post #292

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not a gun dude, but I read that it is common when using "subsonic rounds" for quieter shots.

All of this seems to indicate this was a hired professional and not someone merely angry at their health insurance benefits.

Or someone highly motivated to make the hit a work of art. Killers are usually not very smart, or they are blinded by rage, and they make mistakes and are sloppy and incomplete about planning.

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Post by Zigurd »

ryandrake wrote: post #134
toomuchtodo wrote: post #46

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This is the comment that has been in my head since the news broke, and I feel like we are only at the beginning, like the pause before the first drop of a rollercoaster with the forward looking macro (political and economic tension, broadly speaking). Laws and rules only matter so long as we're all willing to believe they do.

Same here. With as many guns and victims of corporate greed that we have, I'm actually pretty shocked that we don't see this happening as routinely as, say, school shootings. I wonder if we'd see slightly more ethical behavior from corporations if their C-level staff and board members had to routinely practice lock-down drills because they were getting offed once a week.

Kids can be more cruel than a health insurance company?

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Post by PaulHoule »

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #324

Not much is known at this point, but I wonder if this is related to the big hack of change healthcare, a subsidiary. I doubt it but just a thought.

I think a lot of people might believe their life or the life of a loved one was ruined or endangered by a health insurance CEO and such a person might feel justified in such an attack.

When you think of the awful stress that CEOs put on people like

https://www.reddit.com/r/SEARS/comments/18uwjvg/have_you_int...

and think it's a wonder this doesn't happen more often but then I found out that Lampert had been kidnapped.

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Post by binary132 »

kasey_junk wrote: post #255
binary132 wrote: post #233

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I don’t think GP is commenting on the legality of it but rather on the possibility of it.

Well if you don’t care about legality you don’t need to buy a gun somewhere with less restrictions on guns…

it should be obvious that it is easier to do so

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Post by vundercind »

nyarlathotep_ wrote: post #321
vundercind wrote: post #209

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There's an ongoing "all the big liberal cities are scary" vibe in much media that's been internalized by a large proportion of the population. I know multiple people (and have myself experienced this) who've been greeted with warnings and concern from relatives when traveling to major cities... when those cities have violent crime rates far lower than the places they/we live. Like, a fifth as much or lower. It's stil…

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I will believe this if you show me the stats. You can use homicide rates, since they're hard to fake or badly under-report, and since many of the other stats crime stats also look pretty good for NYC and I expect you'll dismiss them as extremely incorrect—and it's not unreasonable to worry that they might be, so, you can just use the homicide rates.

Maybe one "scary" big city is managing to do hide far-worse homicide rates than they actually have. Are a bunch of them? Maybe, I guess, I doubt it but maybe. If a bunch of them are successfully hiding a lot of murders, though—are towns and small or mid-sized cities in poorer states just unable to hide theirs as effectively, since they are often really high?

Of course, you do see more crime with higher density and with a higher proportion of travel on foot rather than by highway. That doesn't necessarily equate to higher risk.

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