Mark Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthCare, was killed on the streets of Manhattan last week, but strangely enough for many, his murder was not met with outrage but rather with cheers in some quarters. The internet was filled with emojis of laughter and glee rather then tears. And what made this incident even more unusual was that the accused killer was Luigi Mangione, an Ivy League educated valedictorian.
This shooting is merely one in a long line of headline grabbing gun shootings starting with the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. By now we have grown accustomed to mass shootings in schools, movie theaters, concert halls, and even World Series parades. The numbers of mass gun shootings have risen each year.
