If we celebrate killing people more people will be killed. If you make it heroic, the guillotines will be set up in town squares.
I remember when the disgruntled insuree, Luigi Mangioni, killed Brian Thompson in cold blood, on the streets of New York. He was cranky that a claim for medical reimbursement had been denies by his insurer, whose boss was said Mr Thompson.
I remember reading about this, and assuming that Mangioni would be severely criticised. That it's be something like "you may have your issues with the insurer, but killing the CEO is not the way to resolve them". Or something.
But, nothing like it. The left immediately was on Mangioni's side and said that the killing was "understandable" and "justified".
Famous people agreed. I remember, to my horror, seeing comedian Bill Burr on Colbert throwing up a peace sign and shouting "Free Mangioni". To cheers from the audience.
Then came the killing of Charlie Kirk. Again, I assumed that this would be called out. Nothing like it. At least from the Left. Who could not stop themselves from celebrating.
Donald Trump was nearly killed by an assassin. The Left was only disappointed tht the bullet was just a shade too far to the left, that it missed his brain.
All of this is shocking. Though now, months later, I'm no longer shocked. Just depressed and horrified at where the Left in the United States has got to.
That promoting, that celebrating, that enabling, that encouraging, violence for political ends, is not just fine, but noble and heroic.
That way lies Hell. I've seen it in China. I've read about it in Soviet Russia. In North Korea. In Vietnam.
Yet here we are in today's America, with the New York Times giving a fawning interview to a Merchant of Death, the radical Marxist Thug, Hasan Piker.
Briget Phetasy is sound, common sensical. As is Mike Solana of Private Wires.
