You’d think they arrested Robin Hood.

Luigi Mangione is simply this:  A guy in a hood with a 3D-printed weapon with silencer intent on ending the life of an unsuspecting father and husband as the latter walked to work in the early morning hours of New York City last week.

Is it only in America where a guy like this gets to be a folk hero?  Probably not, but as in all things, America does it bigger and louder, so here we are, some of us, finding humour at the assassination of a fifty year-old insurance executive, Brian Thompson.  And making little Luigi the poster boy for the righteous fight against corporate greed.

I’m not a big fan of corporate greed myself.  I’ll be right there at the start of the line when it comes to criticizing the actions of places like banks and insurance companies.  If they even knew about me and my commentary, they would consider me to be a hostile.  But that doesn’t mean they’re going to kill me.  And it doesn’t mean I’m going to kill them.

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