Comedian Bill Burr suggested during an interview published Tuesday that the Luigi Mangione murder case involving the killing of a healthcare CEO should prompt healthcare companies to examine their policies.
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In an interview with Rolling Stone, Burr said, "I mean if you look at all of this stuff, like the response to the Luigi [Mangione] thing.
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It wasn’t ‘Maybe we need to look at what we’re doing if it makes some crazy person do this.’
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[Healthcare executives’] response was to take their faces off the internet and get security.
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"It’s like, you don’t think you need to examine this?" he continued.
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"You’re not the president.
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You’re just the CEO of a business.
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Why do you need this level of security?"
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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a husband and father of two children, was murdered in December 2024.
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Mangione pleaded guilty in federal court on Aug. 14 to charges connected to Thompson's murder.
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Attorney Rafael Mangual, the Nick Ohnell Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, spoke to Fox News Digital about Burr's comments.
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"The only way to understand the comedian’s comments is as an endorsement of brutal and extrajudicial violence as a legitimate means of expressing one’s frustrations with corporate behavior," he said.
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"Luigi Mangione isn’t a hero, or a martyr," Mangual continued.
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"He shot a man in the back for no other reason than that he objected to the business he was in."
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"Expressing anything other than condemnation of such an act is to open an enormous can of worms that Burr clearly hasn’t contemplated," he added.
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"His remarks reveal that he hasn’t grappled with the most basic questions.
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For example, if homicide is on the table as a way to express various gripes, where do we draw the line?
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Who decides which lives are on the table?
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What pain is someone deeply offended by a comedian allowed to inflict as a result
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"I prefer these decisions be made by legislatures, judges, and juries," Mangual said.
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Burr was once known for being a politically incorrect comedian, but acknowledged to Rolling Stone that his perspective has changed, noting how he has distanced himself from past language about women.
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"This whole journey of being a comedian is when I stopped doing this and started doing a little more of that.
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Maybe you're bringing something to the party, you know?'" he said.
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"My whole view on women is changed now.
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I look back on all of the dumb s--- that I said, it had nothing to do with how I felt."
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"I wanted to be married.
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I wanted to have kids.
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I just didn't know how to do it.
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So what did I do?
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I blamed what I wanted.
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I missed out on a lot of good times, being that brooding guy," Burr said.
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Fox News' Michael Ruiz and Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
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