{"id":109307,"date":"2025-04-15T04:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=109307"},"modified":"2025-04-15T04:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:04:16","slug":"109307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=109307","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/tomknighton\/2025\/04\/14\/why-do-i-have-guns-because-of-people-like-taylor-lorenz-n2655483\">Why Do I Have Guns? Because of People Like Taylor Lorenz.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former New York Times and Washington Post &#8220;journalist&#8221; Taylor Lorenz is not a very good person, but I want to start by making it very clear that the headline is not a threat against her. I wish her absolutely no physical or even psychological harm from any kind of violent encounter.<\/p>\n<p>No, I carry a gun because of people like her, but not so much because I&#8217;m looking to hurt them.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m looking to make sure me and mine don&#8217;t get hurt by the kind of people who want to impress people like her.<\/p>\n<p>As you may have heard, Lorenz\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/madelineleesman\/2025\/04\/14\/taylor-lorenz-comments-about-luigi-mangione-n2655456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">embarrassed herself<\/a>\u00a0by fawning over UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson&#8217;s alleged killer. Luigi Mangione reportedly shot Thompson with a privately made firearm with a privately made suppressor on the streets of one of the most anti-gun cities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Mangione is someone that, apparently, many women find to be a good-looking guy. He doesn&#8217;t do it for me, but then again, dudes never will.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz, however, celebrated the murder from the start, and in her latest comments during an interview with CNN, she literally called Mangione &#8220;moral.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the guy accused of killing another, who Lorenz believes did it, was the moral one. A lot of people agree with her.<\/p>\n<p>This is sick and twisted, especially as this kind of celebratory attitude encourages others to kill people they disagree with or simply don&#8217;t like because they did something &#8220;bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet Lorenz isn&#8217;t exactly my biggest fan, apparently. She blocked me on X shortly after I criticized what one might laughingly call her work. I said she sucked at her job and she got bent out of shape over it. It&#8217;s safe to say, at least at that moment, that she probably thought I was a bad person.<\/p>\n<p>And now we know what Lorenz wants to see happen to &#8220;bad people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this day and age, there are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/tomknighton\/2025\/04\/09\/note-to-the-left-dont-start-anything-you-cant-finish-n2655251\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a ton of people who think like this<\/a>. They&#8217;re the people firebombing Tesla dealerships or plotting to kill President Donald Trump or Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro because they don&#8217;t like what they believe these people represent.<\/p>\n<p>So why would anyone believe those deemed &#8220;bad&#8221; won&#8217;t become the target of people who want to be seen as &#8220;good&#8221; by their side, by people like Lorenz?<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m likely to ever be the victim of any such thing, I&#8217;d be stupid to act like I&#8217;m impervious. That&#8217;s true of just about everyone out there, even those of us who don&#8217;t have a particularly high profile. I mean, despite being a health insurance CEO, Brian Thompson wasn&#8217;t that well known, all things considered.<\/p>\n<p>People like Lorenz celebrate the murder of people they don&#8217;t like, which feeds into the idea that the ends justify even the most violent means. It doesn&#8217;t matter whether there are non-violent means available; they still support violence.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Lorenz will likely never act violently herself. Not for her politics and not for much of anything else, except maybe in her own defense.<br \/>\nBut her and people like her celebrating and swooning over a killer and pretending he&#8217;s a hero has the potential to result in a whole lot more deaths than Luigi Mangione could have possibly carried out himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Do I Have Guns? Because of People Like Taylor Lorenz. Former New York Times and Washington Post &#8220;journalist&#8221; Taylor Lorenz is not a very good person, but I want to start by making it very clear that the headline is not a threat against her. I wish her absolutely no physical or even psychological &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=109307\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,74,17,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-safety","category-scratch-a-lib-find-a-tyrant","category-self-defense","category-the-violence-inherent-in-the-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109308,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109307\/revisions\/109308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}