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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

#51

CNBC reports that the gunman used a silencer. Wtf?

In the interest of brevity, they're not called silencers, they're called suppressors since they don't "silence" anything like in a Hollywood movie. Typically a suppressor will reduce the sound signature of a gunshot from something like 140dBA to 110dBA. Still enough to cause hearing damage and be heard a quarter mile away.

Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

#52

What a dystopian world we live in where oligarchs controlling anti-trust companies deny medical coverage [0]. Am I surprised this happened... [0] https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-i...

What do you mean by anti-trust company?

Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

#55

Propaganda of the deed? I guess suspects will be a list of people who have been paying into United Health Care insurance who thought they were covered, but got turned down, possibly for a terminal illness, for greater profits.

"When they took everything he had, they left him with nothing to lose"

Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

#58

Do a search for 'UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients' and see what comes up. I'm not saying this is deserved, more that I'm surprised it's taken this long for someone to just up and execute an insurance CEO.

I read the title as "finally shot" before my morning coffee. ("Finally", not "fatally".)

Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

#59

Propaganda of the deed? I guess suspects will be a list of people who have been paying into United Health Care insurance who thought they were covered, but got turned down, possibly for a terminal illness, for greater profits.

Good thing for the shooter, that's probably 10s of thousands of suspects in the area.

Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

#60

CNBC reports that the gunman used a silencer. Wtf?

Only a handful of states require a permit to buy a firearm. A suppressor is equally easy to procure, and failing that, can be machined by anyone somewhat competent with a lathe. Won't link to it here, Youtube videos available with a quick web search. https://brilliantmaps.com/buy-gun-map/

That's basically propaganda and half-admits it on the site. There are almost no situations where you will not be buying your firearm from an FFL and you will have to fill out a background check form and have a waiting period.

The only private sales that happen are among criminals and within families. Regular people aren't going to risk the kind of charges that stem from misuse after a private sale. Certainly nobody with a legitimate business and livelihood to protect.

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