# United healthcare CEO assassinated, the P&E edition {This is not a gun debate/statistics thread!}

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> [@CaptainE](#):
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> Is there even a thread for Daniel Penny?

Sort of,

> [@Increasingly, people are being killed over smaller and smaller things](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-people-are-being-killed-over-smaller-and-smaller-things/983613):
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> Not sure if this is GD or IMHO (mods can decide), but there were two excellent op-eds that came out recently: A man getting choked to death just for shouting loudly on a New York subway, a woman shot because she was in a car that pulled into the wrong driveway, a black teen shot for going to the wrong address in Kansas City, a family that was gunned down because they asked their neighbor to stop shooting his gun and making noise - the threshold for what “justifies” killing someone is gettin…

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