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pavel_lishintoday at 4:12 PM4 repliesview on HN

Hey, here in America, sometimes CEOs get shot as well.


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briffletoday at 7:31 PM

Here in America, if you or I get shot, a detective gets assigned the case along with 30 other cases on their desk. When a CEO gets shot, the largest city assigns an unlimited number of police to the case to find the person...

Kapuratoday at 4:30 PM

not by the state, however. important distinction.

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red-iron-pinetoday at 5:27 PM

rarely

JumpCrisscrosstoday at 5:12 PM

> here in America, sometimes CEOs get shot as well

No, they don't. The UnitedHealth dude who got shot had a CEO title, but Thompson was ultimately a middle manager.

The actual CEO of UnitedHealth Group–the one who signs off on its financial statements and fields quarterly calls–and the billionaire owners were fine. Which explains, in part, why nothing changed after the shooting.

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