Assassin or Hero? The Battle Over Luigi Mangione

You call him a hero. I call him a terrorist with a good PR team. Let’s strip away the romanticism: he executed a man in cold blood, in front of his wife and child, on a public street. That’s not justice—that’s murder. And wrapping it in a sob story about healthcare doesn’t change the fact that he took a human life without due process. The CEO wasn’t a villain in a movie; he was a father, a husband, a man who had the same right to live as any of the sick people you claim to champion. You don’t fight a broken system by becoming a butcher. You talk about the 30,000 who die from lack of insurance. I hear that. It’s a tragedy. But does that tragedy justify more bloodshed? Absolutely not. If you believe the system is unjust, you fight it with legislation, with protest, with votes. You don’t assassinate a man and then expect the world to thank you for 'raising awareness.' That’s not activism—it’s cowardice. It’s the act of someone who can’t be bothered to do the slow, hard work of change, so they take the easy path of violence. And what did it solve? Nothing. The CEO is dead, but the insurance companies haven’t changed a single policy. You didn’t help the uninsured—you just gave the state a reason to crack down harder on dissent. And this absurd glorification of a fugitive? It’s a moral sickness. You’re cheering for a man who decided he had the right to play judge, jury, and executioner. That’s the logic of a tyrant, not a liberator. You say the media is unfair? They’re not unfair—they’re accurate. He’s not a Robin Hood; he’s a thug with a gun. Robin Hood gave to the poor. This man gave the poor nothing but more fear and more surveillance. He didn’t steal from the rich to feed the hungry—he stole a life and tossed it into the gutter. So no, I won’t call him a hero. I’ll call him what he is: a murderer who exploited a real crisis to justify his own bloodlust. The healthcare system is broken, but the answer isn’t a bullet. It’s a ballot. It’s a union. It’s a lawsuit. It’s any of the thousand non-lethal tools we have to demand change. If you think killing one man fixes this, you’re not a revolutionary—you’re a fool. And the blood of that CEO is on your hands as much as his.