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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
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Subject: Re: Two political shootings, an assasination and attempted assasination in Minnesota
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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:35:13 -0400
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nanoflower@gmail.com wrote:
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>>> This morning, 6/14/2025, two Democratic-Farm-Labor Minnesota state
>>> legislators were shot at their homes. One assasination was successful;
>>> the husband was also killed. The other was an attempted assasination of
>>> the politician and his wife.
>>
>>I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about this. When Luigi Mangione gunned
>>down a health care CEO, it was met with at best "murder is wrong, but..."
>>excuse-making by the leftist pundit-sphere, if not outright cheering him on
>>and calling for jury nullification in his trial.
>>
>>So if murder in service to strongly-held political beliefs is understandable
>>if not laudable, then should I feel that justice has been served with these
>>attacks in Minnesota or should I be outraged over the cold-blooded murder of
>>government officials?
>
>I wouldn't say Mangione was so much a political killing as either
>revenge for all of the deaths United Health Care had caused or
>protection for potential victims when UHC refuses to cover any
>insurance needs. That said no one should be murdered. As much as I
>despise what the UHC CEO was having his company do that doesn't
>justify him being killed.
>
>>I need a leftist to tell me what I should think and how this is 'different'.
>>
>
>You'll have to look further than myself as I'm more of a moderate.


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