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All right, Abine, as somebody who covers gun violence, how would you characterize the reactions we've been seeing to this shooting? And how have these reactions been different from the normal reactions to violence?
All right, Abine, as somebody who covers gun violence, how would you characterize the reactions we've been seeing to this shooting? And how have these reactions been different from the normal reactions to violence?
Obviously, we are not condoning murder. And this is an awful tragedy for his family. But the response is... it reminds me a little bit of the way when you read about like Bonnie and Clyde, right? They were doing these really horrible things where they were killing people, they were robbing banks, but there's also during the great depression and people are very, very angry at bankers, right?
Obviously, we are not condoning murder. And this is an awful tragedy for his family. But the response is... it reminds me a little bit of the way when you read about like Bonnie and Clyde, right? They were doing these really horrible things where they were killing people, they were robbing banks, but there's also during the great depression and people are very, very angry at bankers, right?
Obviously, we are not condoning murder. And this is an awful tragedy for his family. But the response is... it reminds me a little bit of the way when you read about like Bonnie and Clyde, right? They were doing these really horrible things where they were killing people, they were robbing banks, but there's also during the great depression and people are very, very angry at bankers, right?
You know, banks that basically tanked the economy and, you know, people have lost their livelihoods, they lost their homes. And so because they were robbing banks, it was seen as a sort of, even though what they were doing wasn't sort of vigilantism, right? It wasn't sort of resolving any of the situations that people found themselves in.
You know, banks that basically tanked the economy and, you know, people have lost their livelihoods, they lost their homes. And so because they were robbing banks, it was seen as a sort of, even though what they were doing wasn't sort of vigilantism, right? It wasn't sort of resolving any of the situations that people found themselves in.
You know, banks that basically tanked the economy and, you know, people have lost their livelihoods, they lost their homes. And so because they were robbing banks, it was seen as a sort of, even though what they were doing wasn't sort of vigilantism, right? It wasn't sort of resolving any of the situations that people found themselves in.
They were also going after or hitting the pockets of people that were really, really unpopular. And this feels kind of like that kind of folk hero thing.
They were also going after or hitting the pockets of people that were really, really unpopular. And this feels kind of like that kind of folk hero thing.
They were also going after or hitting the pockets of people that were really, really unpopular. And this feels kind of like that kind of folk hero thing.
Yeah, I mean, it's something that we don't really think about as, you know, violence.
Yeah, I mean, it's something that we don't really think about as, you know, violence.
Yeah, I mean, it's something that we don't really think about as, you know, violence.
But just last year, the American Medical Association reported that a third of the physicians they surveyed, and they asked a thousand physicians, a third of them said that they'd seen delay or denial of care due to prior authorization lead to, you know, either serious adverse health effects for their patients or even death.
But just last year, the American Medical Association reported that a third of the physicians they surveyed, and they asked a thousand physicians, a third of them said that they'd seen delay or denial of care due to prior authorization lead to, you know, either serious adverse health effects for their patients or even death.
But just last year, the American Medical Association reported that a third of the physicians they surveyed, and they asked a thousand physicians, a third of them said that they'd seen delay or denial of care due to prior authorization lead to, you know, either serious adverse health effects for their patients or even death.
Why do you think people have a harder time seeing what happens to people like us on the business end of insurance companies' decisions as violence, but we can see gun violence more clearly as the destructive thing that it is?
Why do you think people have a harder time seeing what happens to people like us on the business end of insurance companies' decisions as violence, but we can see gun violence more clearly as the destructive thing that it is?
Why do you think people have a harder time seeing what happens to people like us on the business end of insurance companies' decisions as violence, but we can see gun violence more clearly as the destructive thing that it is?