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Showing Original Post only (View all)Shapiro: "Hear me on this: he is no hero." [View all]
"In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint. I understand people have real frustration with our healthcare system, and I have worked to address that throughout my career.
"But I have no tolerance, nor should anyone, for one man using an illegal ghost gun to murder someone because he thinks his opinion matters most. In a civil society, we are all less safe when ideologues engage in vigilante justice.
In some dark corners, this killer is being hailed as a hero. Hear me on this: he is no hero.
Answering follow-up questions from reporters, Shapiro added: Violence can never be used to address political differences, or to address a substantive difference, or to try and prove some ideological point. That is not what we do in a civilized society.
That was true in Butler, it was true in new york city, and its true anywhere. that is not how you make progress in this country.
"But I have no tolerance, nor should anyone, for one man using an illegal ghost gun to murder someone because he thinks his opinion matters most. In a civil society, we are all less safe when ideologues engage in vigilante justice.
In some dark corners, this killer is being hailed as a hero. Hear me on this: he is no hero.
Answering follow-up questions from reporters, Shapiro added: Violence can never be used to address political differences, or to address a substantive difference, or to try and prove some ideological point. That is not what we do in a civilized society.
That was true in Butler, it was true in new york city, and its true anywhere. that is not how you make progress in this country.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/luigi-mangione-arrest-pennsylvania-reaction-health-insuranc-b2661599.html
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The amount of violence that health-insurance policies wreak on people's bodies is immense.
WhiskeyGrinder
Tuesday
#2
"Violence can never be used to address political differences, or to address a substantive difference"
Hellbound Hellhound
Tuesday
#3
Just wait for the Dead Pool list on those who pull Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
TheBlackAdder
Tuesday
#4
We deny their cancer treatment and their abortion. We deny their diabetes and heart meds.
onecaliberal
Tuesday
#9
There is something really twisted about your thinking. You are calling for violence period, and trying to justify it
JohnSJ
23 hrs ago
#63
Then I guess with your warped, burn it all down logic, you had no problem with the targeting killing of Dr. Tiller.
JohnSJ
11 hrs ago
#74
The taking of a life by a private vigilante is not justified in this case
LetMyPeopleVote
12 hrs ago
#71
Shapiro is right, and thiose trying to rationalize or justify the murder of a CEO are just as twisted as the MAGAs,
JohnSJ
23 hrs ago
#64