There was a saying that used to go around the Internet, and it went something along the lines of this: "If guns kill people, spoons make them fat."
The idiom was meant to point out the absurdity of the Left's gun-control arguments, in which they blamed the weapon — and not the person wielding it — for violence and death. It's meant to be absurd because the premise is absurd. But the Left has taken what it thinks passes as logic and raised it to the next, even more absurd and dangerous level.
Last week, Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione reportedly gunned Thompson down on a Manhattan street, angry over health insurance companies denying claims. What followed the murder and Mangione's subsequent arrest was a cavalcade of excuses from the Left.
"Yes, it's wrong to murder someone, but ... "
I'm going to stop you right there. It's wrong to murder someone, period. Full stop. There are no qualifiers, no modifications. It's wrong to murder someone.
Shooting them in the back on a New York street is murder.
Being the CEO of a healthcare company that denies claims, on the other hand, is not. But that's the argument the Left is using. See, Brian Thompson — who was a husband and a father of two teenage boys — deserved to die, according to the Left, because he basically murdered people, too.
Talking about Luigi as a “killer” without mentioning the tens of thousands of deaths Brian Thompson was responsible for is manufacturing consent for corporate genocide.
— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) August 16, 2026
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"The problem with cops is their selective enforcement of crime. It’s about protecting monied interests. Not you," Gray wrote.
Please, Briahna, point out what laws Brian Thompson broke. I'll wait.
But if Briahna wants to go down that path, there are a lot of people who deserve to die. The CEOs of Hostess, Kellogg's, Hershey, and pretty much every company that manufactures junk food, for example. Obesity and related illnesses kill about 300,000 people annually.
Or what about the heads of Ford, Toyota, and Honda? Roughly 37,000 Americans die in traffic accidents every year.
But since Gray is focused on healthcare, let's talk about that for a minute. Medical errors account for at least 250,000 deaths annually. This includes things like medication errors (e.g. the wrong drug, wrong dose, giving the medication to the wrong patient), diagnostic errors, surgical/procedural errors, hospital-acquired infections, anesthesia errors, and blood-transfusion errors.
Oh, and the biggest denier of claims is Medicaid. Does Gray really want to start arresting politicians, doctors, and nurses for murder or summarily executing them without a trial?
That's scary and dangerous.
Brian Thompson killed no one. His job was to make sure the company remained fiscally solvent so it could keep employing people and keep insuring them, even if a fraction of the claims are denied. There's no proof that denial of claims led to any deaths, and yet the Left acts as if this were gospel truth.
What they're doing is setting up a permission structure by which they can enact violence against their political opponents, and justify actual murder by making the normal business process akin to homicide.
And we're supposed to put these people in charge of a socialized system of healthcare?
No, thank you.
