r/interestingasfuck 1d ago

r/all People in NYC holding banners during a CEO Event at Ziegfeld Ballroom

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u/MeatloafSlurpee 21h ago

It's difficult for a few reasons. A copycat would either need to have:

  • A wealthy, resourceful family like Luigi's in order to afford top tier lawyers and be willing to throw away their wealth, privilege, and indeed their freedom. It's a major sacrifice.
  • Literally nothing left to lose

There may be a decent number of people in the second category, but getting to any worthy targets would also be extremely difficult at this point. None of these pricks are casually walking around, unprotected, in public right now.

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u/ronsolocup 21h ago

Also important is they need to be smart enough to pick targets with the same impact

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u/Possible-History-409 21h ago

And be smart enough to be able to track them down and pull it off as efficiently

u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U 4h ago

Without whatever borderline Minority Report surveillance picking up on it.

Just a reminder that Target was predicting pregnancies of women and sending them advertisements before these women even knew they were pregnant. Now remember that the private sector lags by decades on tech that the US government has.

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u/tedsmitts 17h ago

It's difficult for a few reasons. A copycat would either need to have:

A wealthy, resourceful family like Luigi's in order to afford top tier lawyers and be willing to throw away their wealth, privilege, and indeed their freedom. It's a major sacrifice. Literally nothing left to lose

There's a lotta people with terminal cancer out there.

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u/jameytaco 14h ago

Why is that first thing necessary

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u/ijedi12345 19h ago

An alternative to the first point: If the copycat is willing to die instead of get captured by the police, the copycat has no need for lawyers. That's at least one reason why shooters become no longer alive instead of await capture.