In the moments before Luigi Mangione allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the suspect’s pistol jammed. In the time it took for the suspected killer to clear his chamber and put a round downrange, an armed would-be victim could have returned fire and ended the threat to his or her life. Unfortunately for Thompson, he was in New York City, which has some of the most stringent and unconstitutional gun laws in the country.

The far Left’s depraved response to the murder of a healthcare CEO should be illuminating for citizens of New York and other Democratic strongholds. From former New York Times and Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz’s enthusiastic endorsement of the murder to the thousands of viral posts on social media supporting the killing of other wealthy CEOs, surely there must be Americans considering firearm ownership who have never owned a gun before.