Folks, the alleged shooter of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week

has now been arrested.

He was arrested yesterday in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

This apparently happened because somebody at a local McDonald's saw him, and his picture

had been plastered across the news, and they recognized him.

They called the police.

The police showed up.

They searched him, and they found a so-called ghost gun, a 3D printed gun. They found a bevy of fake IDs. He apparently also had a

two-page manifesto on him that was radically anti-capitalist in nature. And it's sort of fascinating

to get into who this person was. I want to get into that. I also want to get into the public response

to him, which to me is far more disturbing. And yes, I've seen the comments on my recent shows talking

about how, believe it or not, it is very, very bad. It is in fact evil to shoot the United

Healthcare CEO, even if you are upset at the healthcare industry in the United States. The fact that this has to be said is sort of incredible, but it does have to be said. So let's start with what we know about the alleged shooter here. His name is Luigi Mangione, and we have a policy on this show that we don't normally say the names of mass shooters. He is not a mass shooter. He's an individual murderer. And obviously, his name is plastered all over the news. So you've seen him,

and you know about his name. His name is Luigi Mangione. He is 26 years old. We know that he had

upon him a 262 word handwritten document, so presumably written at the last minute, in which he said that

United Health Care's market capitalization, even though it has grown American life expectancy,

has not, is according to the UK Daily Mail, he condemned companies that, quote,

continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them

to get away with it.

Mangione then importantly also added the act at alone and that the entire effort was

self-funded, saying, quote, to save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly, I wasn't working with anyone. These parasites had it coming. I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done. We'll get into that particular argument that it, quote-unquote, had to be done in a moment because one of the things about evil

is that it tends to masquerade as good.

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