They didn't care about 7 year olds getting their faces blown off, but expect us to care about a murderer suffering

[onecaliberal]

Consequences.

I don’t have the bandwidth to care.

[Deuxcents]

1. This has been on my mind since this happened. Children in schools, innocents in church

Grocery stores, theaters..anywhere being shot up and killed with military weapons and still no incentive to get serious about our gun plague. I’m wondering if this high level person’s death will make a difference.

[stopdiggin]

5. Oh, oh - - (hand waving high - begging for recognition .. )

not a chance in a million !
And you haven't heard a single 2nd Amend person making even the slightest of hints in any such direction.
Today, tomorrow - next week. Guns are the solution - not the problem ...

[Wonder Why]

19. If everyone had guns, then there would be 6 dead. Thompson, the shooter and

4 others in the crossfire who shot at the shooter and got someone else.

[rubbersole]

26. The doorman, taxi driver, bike messenger....

[paleotn]

34. Some poor sap driving down the street wondering what's going on.

That's the thing about lead projectiles. They're very equal opportunity.

[FoxNewsSucks]

38. No. It will make NO difference.

Congressman Steve Scalise (R-NY) nearly died in a gun attack, yet continued to be a whore for the NRA. The blood money is too tempting for them. I don't know what else can explain it but money and continued need for their side to be heavily armed and paranoid.

[kacekwl]

40. Only if the child

can afford top notch security.

[Aussie105]

2. Sad lament music triggered! Think of . . .

Think of the poor young innocents killed by gun violence?
Play the dirge music. Play it loud, play it slow.

Think of some rich power hungry CEO meeting a sudden end on the street?
Play the same music?
Hmm, let me think about it.

[BattleRow]

13. Perhaps.."Strike up the band"?

[stopdiggin]

3. who exactly - "didn't care about 7 yr olds getting their faces blown off .."?

"and then expected .. "
I guess I must have missed this startling dichotomy ...

- - - - - - - - -

[SunSeeker]

8. Who? Republicans.

They still don't give a shit about Sandy Hook.

[Attilatheblond]

25. All the well armed LEOs at the school in Uvalde didn't seem to care much about the kids they heard being blown to shreds

[rubbersole]

32. But, but he had an assault weapon...

...and they didn't sign up for that kind of risk. There were only 40 officers and the odds were just too much. Plus they were kids. Tough luck. If they had been insurance execs ...

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

42. Or fetuses...

[RockRaven]

4. His company, and others like it, buys lots of their ad spaces. That's why they care,

or at least are willing to pretend to, as well as get the vapors over others not caring.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Children literally shot to pieces sitting in school.

So badly shot up that only DNA can identify them.

No one gives a rat's behind about these kids.

But we are supposed to cry over a rich dude who legally kills Americans for PROFIT.

[CrispyQ]

30. At one time I thought releasing photos would change Americans view on guns,

but I'm not so sure anymore. The gun lust in this country is sick.

[Irish_Dem]

36. I am a strong advocate of the showing pictures of the mutilated children.

I don't know if it will do any good or not.
But we have nothing to lose.

[Amanita Pantherina]

46. Emmit Till's Mother

Mamie, wanted the world to see what had been done to her son. Thankful to her.

[Irish_Dem]

48. Yes exactly. Why hide ugly truths?

[kimbutgar]

7. I've had to do active shooter drills with my student's

And inside I feel like crying that we live in a country like this.

[erronis]

20. Maybe we need required classes in our schools to teach us all to recognize corruption, grift, lying politicians, etc.

Would be more useful than duck and cover.

But, no. Can't teach "critical thinking"!

[onecaliberal]

29. We've done them in our department.

The hall was called a tunnel of death by training officers.

[Demobrat]

9. I care about him just as.much

as he would have cared about me if I had died because his company decided to deny me care.

I would have been just a statistic. So is he.

[erronis]

23. Exactly. Your denial and death would have added $3.45 to his annual bonus. His death won't decrease your premiums.

(I made that up.)

[Meowmee]

10. Sad world we live in

[malaise]

11. Additionally, I have certainly never heard a CEO of a health insurance company speak about

the cost of healthcare as a result of access to guns.

[onecaliberal]

15. This is a good point because the cost is substantial.

Especially when you factor in the repercussion to the family and society.
I’m really starting to despise people who can’t add 2 + 2.

[malaise]

17. Where I live gun crimes have crippled our hospitals

This is serious shit but they say nothing

[Wonder Why]

22. Only bubble gum crimes. They explode without warning. 😁

[malaise]

24. LOL

Gun

[Karasu]

12. Sadly, this country cares infinitely more about CEOs and businesspeople in general than it will ever care about the

lives of schoolkids.

[BattleRow]

14. And they want to dismantle the Dept of Education...

Wonder what implications that could have via gun control..jus saying...

[onecaliberal]

16. I never understood that until after Sandy Hook.

They are evil people.

[MineralMan]

18. Who are "They?"

[Bluetus]

43. I can name 77,247,342 for starters.

[lrucks1952]

21. Im in total agreement

I agree in that I simply cant extend the mental capacity to care. I also agree that hopefully this will make a difference now that one of them has been a victim..

[Attilatheblond]

28. So far, seems the only difference made after this particular execution has been companies scrubbing photos on websites

Gone are the professional head shots, you should pardon the expression, of their beaming corporate officers on company websites. Social media already scrubbed of any info on those whose bonuses depend on killing people undercover of paperwork.

[Attilatheblond]

31. Saw this today on FB. Pretty clear about our reality where capitalism is king

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[enid602]

27. UHC

I wonder if UHC would have paid the claim if the CEO had survived the assasination.

[Demobrat]

37. Maybe if he went to an in-network hospital.

[Dr. T]

33. Thoughts

and prayers?!? Isn't that the gun humpers standard response?

[0rganism]

47. Crisis actors! False flag! Gun-grabber conspiracy!

For some reason, we're not hearing about how this CEO faked his death and now lives on a yacht in the Mediterranean. Why is that? From what I have seen in MSM coverage, the guy had plenty of reasons to disappear himself and live incognito.

[usonian]

35. The millionaire is no more or less human than the 48,000 firearm-related deaths in 2022.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219791824


To everyone transfixed by the shooting of a millionaire:

Where are the headlines and flame wars when kids, spouses, people guilty only of being Black are killed every day?.

NOBODY CARES

More at the OP.

[ColinC]

39. It feels like the top .01% is working overtime to get us to care more about them than average people

If only there was some point in history - perhaps European History, like in some country -(maybe France?), that gives us some idea of how situations with enormous wealth gaps in society and a penchent for the super wealthy to abuse their undeserved class, turns out? 🤔

[orwell]

41. Thoughts and prayers...

...to all those victims of UHC.

[Zambero]

44. Bad shit repeatedly perpetrated on people

will eventually result in bad shit going down. History reveals many episodes of this over the course of humanity.

[johnnyfins]

49. It's how the United States was born!!!

[City Lights]

50. I wish I could recommend this post more than once!

It's spot on! Thank you for saying it!

[onecaliberal]

52. I'm soooooo over it.

[magicarpet]

51. Could the CEO shooter have been a distant relative of Mario Savio ?

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part!” Savio shouted, “you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus—and you've got to make it stop!”

++++++++++++++
https://www.theculturecrush.com/feature/bodies-upon-the-gears

[A HERETIC I AM]

53. It was said and made clear years ago...

That the argument about gun control was lost in this country when 20 six year olds were shot in the face and the United States congress did NOTHING about it.

Also, the video of the LEO casually walking across the corridor to take a pump of hand sanitizer while an active shooter was down the hill at Uvalde should be played on a loop in every congressional office.


Greatest country in the world and all that.

What crap.