That low?
- There's a teensy bit of data massaging to make the approval rating appear lower... in my opinion of course.
  The respondents were asked to rank "acceptability of the killers actions" on a scale of 1 to 5.
  Assumin'the average "young voter" views gunning strangers down as:
  [1.very unfavorable]
  (You would, if asked about murder, say it was bad As a rule. right? I would too. Ya know, unless it was justified.)
  Looking at it that way, the same data looks a lot different suddenly.
  33% young voters still think the killer is completely unjustified.
  7% think there was some justification
  19% are undecided if the CEO deserved to die for what he did
  24% think the killer was mostly justified... But have reservations
  17% believe he was 100% in the right
  I got a little free with the interpretations but you get the idea, You could decide to frame the data this way too. there's a saying: statistics don't lie but statisticians do. Here's my 100% true alternate title using the data but presented with the story I want to tell:
  67% of Young Voters at Least Partly Approve of Killers Actions
  
  Selective selection of selected data by billionaire controlled media still can't get below 41%
  It's awesome how willfully they exclude or manipulate in attempt to soften the information.
  
  "Don't completely disapprove" might be better phrasing
- Yeah that's the shocking point for me
  
  I'm of two minds about it. Half the time, I want to build a statue of Luigi
  The other half of the time, I'm feeling the Tolkien quote, "many that live deserve death, and many that die deserve life. Will you give it to them?"
  In other words, at no point do I feel that Brian Robert Thompson didn't objectively deserve to die. He is objectively doing more good for the world as worm food than he did as a living man. My only question is on the ethics of anyone actually killing him. On one hand, no one should have a right to make that call on their own. On the other, it's not like he was ever going to face justice any other way.
  I wonder if this dilemma is reflected in this poll. You can believe that killing the CEO was unacceptable, while also believing he absolutely deserved it.
  
  Well said.
  I don't usually wish cancer on people, but if I had to choose, I'd probably have wanted him to go this way than by vigilante justice.
  
  It has begun a very interesting national conversation, though...
- I've been trying to tell you guys this is an echo chamber on the issue.

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67% of Young Voters at Least Partly Approve of Killers Actions