OPINION:
Each time Luigi Mangione, the accused murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appears in court, those of us who read newspapers or watch TV news have to endure the focus placed on a man who is believed to have shot another human being in the back on a Manhattan street and then fled the scene like a coward (“Bullets in Luigi Mangione’s bag convinced police that he was UnitedHealthcare CEO killing suspect,” Web, Dec. 8).
In a society that includes an element of depravity, this alleged gunman is admired by many who appear to believe that if you have a complaint against someone or someone’s company, you have a license to kill.
Savages who take the lives of others would have some of the wind taken out of their sails if the only photographs that were shown in the aftermath of the act were of the victim, not the suspect, and an emphasis was placed on what has been inflicted upon the murdered individual’s spouse, children and all who loved him.
It should be just as easy for us to remember the name of the deceased as it is to remember the name of the individual who gunned him down.
OREN SPIEGLER
Peters Township, Pennsylvania
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