Violence is never an acceptable response. (except for Jan 6 according to the Republic Party)
What could possibly drive someone to killing? Many years ago during a hearing in Austin I was describing what homeowners experienced during their fight with their homebuilder concerning a major construction defect in their new home. I had experienced this frustration dealing with my own defect back in 1992. It’s not fun watching as someone with the power to make things right turn to their team of attorneys and ignore you. It’s not fun looking for help from the court system just to learn the builders are well protected by the laws that were originally designed to protect you. It can eat on you and I can see someone being driven to violence. (I had my own thoughts about doing something but it was not violent)
Well years later a man in Georgia after arguing with his homebuilder for over 6 months invited him back to his house and killed him. He served 10 years in prison. Luigi Mangione did the same thing taking the life of an insurance company CEO. He took matters into his own hands much like the Jan 6 rioters. According to trump the rioters were justified because they thought the election was rigged. (hum….who in the living fuck convinced them of that?) Maybe trump will pardon Luigi since he believed his violence also justified.
Maybe others will get the idea of taking advantage of our lax gun laws and solve their problems with their God given right to the 2nd Amendment. America is poised to bring back western style justice against those who harm them financially or physically. When the criminal and civil courts abandoned you and you are left with only memories of a loved one, or left with the job of taking care of a loved one for the rest of their life, or left in financial ruin and you have easy access to military style firearms what could possibly go wrong for those who are responsible? Top that off with elected officials on every level of government condoning violence as they did on Jan 6.
Maybe Luigi did us a favor, but in the wrong way. Maybe CEO’s might want to think twice about screwing people. Maybe homebuilders might want to fix the defects they created. Maybe law makers might want to create laws to protect us from gun violence instead of offering useless thoughts and fucking prayers.
In America those who take the law into their own hands usually end up being held accountable….except for trump’s Jan 6 rioters. So America, stand back and stand by.
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