Musk and his friends are planning right now , on how to handle the menace.

Out of ego or the Principe that 'you don’t treat with terrorist" they will never allow free healthcare (at least, as long trump is in power).

So what will they do?

Fly a plane into another tower? Found “evidence” that Luigi is a pedophile? distract us with a war with china? Enforce gun control? Ban gun 3d printing? Just enroll more bodyguards they will never trust?

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    There’s no need to indulge in conspiratorial thinking, here. Whatever you think of Mangione’s motives, it seems overwhelmingly likely that he did it and, if so, he will almost certainly be in jail for the rest of his life. There’s no need for them to do anything else to him. It seems as though he acted alone, so a broader anti-terrorist crackdown is possible but unlikely, and even less likely to be effective.

    As for the CEOs, I imagine a lot more money is going to be spent on security and they’ll probably demand the businesses they work for pay for that, which actually seems fair, as far as it goes.

    While I don’t have any sympathy for the Republicans, they didn’t seem to even consider more gun control even after Trump was actually hit by a would-be assassin’s bullet, so I doubt they will now. They might pass a law against 3D gun printing, but it’s not even slightly enforceable; I believe owning such a weapon is already illegal but, as Mangione has demonstrated, there’s not much to stop someone making or using one.

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        Apologies, I thought this was a reference to conspiracies:

        Fly a plane into another tower? Found “evidence” that Luigi is a pedophile? distract us with a war with china?

        It seemed to suggest various ‘false flag’ type ideas, which are a hallmark of conspiracy theorising.

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      so a broader anti-terrorist crackdown is possible but unlikely

      It is infuriating that everything is “terrorism” now, especially when combined with the unconstitutional patriot act. A single murder because of personal motivations is not terrorism.

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        I don’t think it was terrorism, either, as the rest of my comment - indeed, the rest of that sentence - makes clear!