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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If I knew who he was, I wouldn’t tell a god damn soul.

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i’d ask for lessons.

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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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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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Feels like it’s that time of year where being neighborly means baking someone a pie.

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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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I’m waiting for the copycats with bated breath.

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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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His company is offering one free appeal of a claim denial for information leading to his arrest!

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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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That can’t be a real offer.

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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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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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Don’t get prison time by giving false information to the police. That’s a crime.

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Yeah but I think a lot of guys look like him. It’s probably best that I call in every. single. one.

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Anonymous tips are a thing. Call from a burner phone at a crowded bar, send an email from a temp mail site you accessed on public wifi using a laptop you bought that day from AliExpress that was shipped to a fake name and public addess that you then donate to goodwill. Create a mechanical pigeon out of scrap you find in the trash while wearing gloves whose entire purpose is to play an recorded message using a common AI voice tts that gets left outside a precinct by a bike courier that you paid in cash while wearing a mask.

Be the slop drama hero the media has trained you to be since birth.

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Just gotta dress like the dude. Any passerby might make the connection and report it, it will be a dead end. That, and city cameras will have a hard time picking out anything from the myriad of false positives.

It ain’t false information for a passerby to report something they think is suspicious that isn’t. It ain’t false information to dress how you like.

The only real issue here is gait identification.

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