{"id":6556,"date":"2026-08-14T19:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6556"},"modified":"2026-08-14T19:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:07:38","slug":"luigi-mangione-only-deserves-contempt-for-the-evil-murder-of-brian-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6556","title":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione only deserves contempt for the evil murder of Brian Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Luigi Mangione\u2019s federal guilty plea, surely to be followed by another in state court, spares his victim\u2019s family the spectacle of a trial, but in reality no one ever much doubted that he did it \u2014 especially not his depraved fans.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6554\">Luigi Mangione\u2019s twisted fans unapologetically still support him after guilty plea: \u2018Revolutionary act of protest\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His lawyer\u2019s talk of the murder as a \u201ctragic event\u201d and the killer as a victim of \u201cthe system\u201d barely skirts the surface of the vile delusions required to defend his actions: Meticulously plotting and executing the murder of an innocent man.<\/p>\n<p>The killer\u2019s justification (in his eyes, and his admirers\u2019) only makes the crime more repugnant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow The Post\u2019s live updates on Luigi Mangione\u2019s guilty plea in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First, because assassination is also an attack on our free society, and on its ample mechanisms for addressing gripes like Mangione\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Second, because even if his pathetic excuse for a critique of \u201cthe system\u201d made the <em>least<\/em> bit of sense, killing Brian Thompson was never going to change a damn thing beyond robbing his family of this husband and father.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, running a major health-insurance company is <em>admirable<\/em> work, playing an important role in how our society \u2014- our democratically elected government \u2014 has decided to distribute limited resources in the medical sphere.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6552\">Brave widow of slain UnitedHealthcare boss Brian Thompson come face to face with Luigi Mangione for first time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is the system flawed? God, yes \u2014 but it beats most of the alternatives.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Here\u2019s the latest on accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione\u2019s<\/strong> murder trial<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why Luigi Mangione may finally plead guilty in UnitedHealthcare CEO murder \u2014 and how it could all fall apart<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty to federal charges in assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Luigi Mangione\u2019s NYC trial rules revealed as court OKs 86 news orgs, anonymous jury \u2014 after concerns of \u2018intimidation\u2019 by sick fans<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lots of folks have <em>far<\/em> deeper gripes with socialized-medicine systems, for example \u2014 however little it occurs to the Luigites to learn what other people think, and why.<\/p>\n<p>And improving the system isn\u2019t remotely a matter of identifying the bad guys and making them stop doing their bad things; that approach is no more mature than holding your breath until you get your way.<\/p>\n<p>If Mangione is to receive any mercy, he should admit his vile errors \u2014 and name them publicly, in hopes of helping his fans grow behind their juvenile foolishness.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he seemingly decided against an insanity plea because he didn\u2019t want to admit his actions were crazy, so we fear he\u2019s unlikely to admit they were morally perverse, either.<\/p>\n<p>If he is nuts, he might merit our pity; if not, then Luigi Mangione deserves only contempt.<\/p>\n<p>He wasted his own life with this twisted killing, and anyone idolizing him is twisted, too.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6550\">Luigi Mangione reveals he posed as investor to UnitedHealthcare as part of sick murder scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if Luigi&#8217;s pathetic excuse for a critique of \u201cthe system\u201d made the least bit of sense, killing Brian Thompson was never going to change a damn thing beyond robbing his family of this husband and father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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