Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Two political shootings, an assasination and attempted assasination in Minnesota Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 18:08:35 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <102kbec$9ev8$7@dont-email.me> <102kpoe$e29e$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:08:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="52d872c1e2a4eb0462a5c8bd8ae75411"; logging-data="482816"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/g/d6WpwJWuiLiWkgQeNVSakUbE8EwQbs=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Id6r0n2qlZzf7ZGIt2ZFRFNj0bE= On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:31:58 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 wrote: >On Jun 14, 2025 at 10:27:40 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" >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.