Comments on: ‘Where Were the Bodyguards?’ Will More CEOs Hire Security After the UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder?

By: uncommon_sense

uncommon_sense — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 19:21:59 +0000

In many respects, any notion of dependability, predictability, and/or security in our lives is a total illusion. Quite literally any catastrophe could happen to you at any moment. You could have an undiagnosed brain aneurysm which suddenly bursts and kills you. An airplane could fall out of the sky on your home and maim/kill you. A sudden wildfire could erupt and destroy your home. An unavoidable car crash could maim/kill you. Of course violent crimes happen all the time without any warning. How about an earthquake, flash-flood, or tsunami? The list goes on and on.

Implement all possible reasonable precautions and then live your life to the fullest because everything could come crashing down at any moment. And think seriously about managing what happens after everything comes crashing down, especially if that involves your death. Who do you want to handle your possessions and how do you want him/her (or a team) to handle your possessions after your death? Finally (no pun intended), how do you want to address the final situation of your immortal soul?

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 16:56:17 +0000

These C level executives only want to ‘feel’ safe. When it gets down to the nuts and bolts of secure behaviors, listening to their detail about how, when, where, and like, security details (the actual guards) get ignored. Then comes the pecuniary side of the equation. Most think of a security detail like it is a rent-a-cop. They really don’t want to pay. Neither do the corporations.

Only when in second and third world countries do any of these people take a security detail seriously, and many, not even then.

I tried that line of work in the late 70’s and early 80’s fresh out of the service. It didn’t pay well then, and the ‘job’ never lasted very long.

By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR

Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 02:46:13 +0000

In reply to 9Volt. It wouldn't surprise me he pays that much, I bet his team are all retired tier 1 operators...

By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR

Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:13:31 +0000

In reply to Shire-man.

“That’s sure to be helpful PR.”

I’m not helpful PR, I’m just Geoff PR.

Oh, nevermind… 🙂

By: Shire-man

Shire-man — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:29:05 +0000

So our premiums will go up and the CEOs will look more Hunger Gamesy.

That’s sure to be helpful PR.

By: SAFEupstateFML

SAFEupstateFML — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:12:57 +0000

Lol no, private security that is even marginally competent enough to prevent this sort of event is expensive and limits mobility. Typically a reason gun control is pushed so hard by the “elites”

By: 9Volt

9Volt — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 21:41:45 +0000

I’m guessing the following could be used as a baseline for what 24/7 security potentially costs:

“In an SEC filing published yesterday, Meta said Zuck’s personal security budget would be increased to a pre-tax allowance of $14 million…”
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/16/meta_zuckerberg_security_budget/