Over at Townhall.com today, Tom Knighton has an article entitled Why Do I Have Guns? Because of People Like Taylor Lorenz. Taylor Lorenz has often been the story, as opposed to merely reporting it, because...well...to put in kindly, she is not a very good journalist. Recently, she gushed over Luigi Mangione who (allegedly, because innocent until proven guilty) killed United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson. The Left has been making heroes of killers since I was a child.
Former New York Times and Washington Post "journalist" Taylor Lorenz is not a very good person, but I want to start by making it very clear that the headline is not a threat against her. I wish her absolutely no physical or even psychological harm from any kind of violent encounter.
No, I carry a gun because of people like her, but not so much because I'm looking to hurt them.
I'm looking to make sure me and mine don't get hurt by the kind of people who want to impress people like her.
As you may have heard, Lorenz embarrassed herself by fawning over UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's alleged killer. Luigi Mangione reportedly shot Thompson with a privately made firearm with a privately made suppressor on the streets of one of the most anti-gun cities in the country.
Knighton's reasons pretty well sum up my reasons for carrying a gun as well. I don't want to hurt someone. I would prefer to be left alone to pursue my own business. But the Left does not allow that. Several years ago, Erick Erickson and Bill Blankshaen wrote a book entitled You Will Be Made to Care that sums up the attitude of the Left. The Left believes that if you don't at least mouth the words du jour, violence will be visited on you. In the culture war, they have always been the aggressor, though the play the victim.
Lorenz, however, celebrated the murder from the start, and in her latest comments during an interview with CNN, she literally called Mangione "moral."
Yes, the guy accused of killing another, who Lorenz believes did it, was the moral one.
A lot of people agree with her.
This is sick and twisted, especially as this kind of celebratory attitude encourages others to kill people they disagree with or simply don't like because they did something "bad."
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And now we know what Lorenz wants to see happen to "bad people."
If people like Lorenz have this sort of attitude, that an individual can, without due process and all on his own decide that someone is "bad" and kill him, and then be lionized by the mob, no wonder that have such disregard for human life. They have looked inside themselves and found a hollow man.
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