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- Jim Thompson
June 2, 2011, 7:00 pm
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Around 10AM this morning it comes over the radio that there's a
shooting at "Yuma County Courthouse", and an attorney has been shot
dead.
One of our sons-in-law in Chief Deputy County Attorney for Yuma
County... Chief Prosecutor and CSI Supervisor.
We couldn't reach anyone :-(
Wasn't until about 1PM that we heard from our daughter that the
shooting had actually been across the street in a divorce attorney's
office, and that everyone (in our family) was OK...
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43256351/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts /
...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
shooting at "Yuma County Courthouse", and an attorney has been shot
dead.
One of our sons-in-law in Chief Deputy County Attorney for Yuma
County... Chief Prosecutor and CSI Supervisor.
We couldn't reach anyone :-(
Wasn't until about 1PM that we heard from our daughter that the
shooting had actually been across the street in a divorce attorney's
office, and that everyone (in our family) was OK...
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43256351/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts /
...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Re: Scary Day Right Here in River City
Thanks! A wee-bit unnerving for awhile. (And the daughter's office
is just down the block... she's the United Way administrator.)
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Re: Scary Day Right Here in River City
Recently I had a similar experience because of a lunatic emptying a
few guns at a small mall. My closest relatives go shopping over there.
They are OK but some people they know got shot.
--
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.)
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Re: Scary Day Right Here in River City
That would've been a bit worrying.
We're lucky here in Oz. Guns are really only owned by the police and a few
bikies. The infrequent gun crime we have is usually between rival criminals.
You guys in the US seem to be having a bad run with these serial shooter
nutbags.
Re: Scary Day Right Here in River City
[snip]
Considering our population, these events are quite a low percentage.
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Re: Scary Day Right Here in River City
[snip]
[snip]
Violence such as in Watts is caused by unemployment (and lack of
female diversions :-).
Provoked, of course, by leftist policies, welfare states that pay best
for fatherless households.
Some theorists say that the DPRK is close to collapse because the
young male population seriously outnumbers the available young female
population.
And it's becoming a problem in China as well.
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Re: Scary Day Right Here in River City
Dream on. The U.S. is up there in the "top 10" with 0.028 firearm
murders per 1,000 people, outdone only by South Africa, Colombia,
Thailand, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Belarus & Costa Rica. Canada and Australia
are roughly 1/5 and 1/10 the U.S. rate, respectively. U.K. is just .
001 per 1000. Gun control would appear to have a lot to do with it.
see: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_percap-crime-murders =
-firearms-per-capita
--
Joe
Re: Scary Day Right Here in River City
On Jun 3, 11:56 am, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@On-My-
Web-Site.com> wrote:
Dream on. The U.S. is up there in the "top 10" with 0.028 firearm
murders per 1,000 people, outdone only by South Africa, Colombia,
Thailand, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Belarus & Costa Rica. Canada and Australia
are roughly 1/5 and 1/10 the U.S. rate, respectively. U.K. is just .
001 per 1000. Gun control would appear to have a lot to do with it.
see:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_percap-crime-murders-firearms-per-capita
--
Joe
===========================
Settle down Joe! You're clouding the issue with facts! ;)
Re: Scary Day Right Here in River City
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_percap-crime-murders-firearms-per-capita
When we start rounding up liberals, it'll go up ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Re: Scary Day Right Here in River City
...Jim Thompson
South Africa, one of the most dangerous places on Earth, has some of
the strictest gun control laws in existence, at least when I was
there. To lose your firearm, even to a vandal or a thief, was to risk
life in prison, effectively a death sentence in South Africa.
The folks there were terrified they were being deliberately,
systematically disarmed, as this would leave them helpless against a
tyrannical government bent on their destruction. From what I hear,
they were right.
--
Cheers,
James Arthur
Re: Scary Day Right Here in River City
But it was only a _divorce_ attorney* :/
I remember a first-aid call** for a shooting at our local bank, right
across the street from my dad's shop. It got tapped out, and rather
than driving Father just snagged his kit from his rig and jogged across
the road. Just about the time that he got out of earshot it came over
the radio that it was believed that the gunman was still inside.
We were tense for a bit, there -- I'm sure it was just an echo of the
feeling that you had.
* I hope my favorite neighbor, the family law practitioner, doesn't read
s.e.d!
** My father was on the Boring Volunteer Fire Department until they
kicked him out on his 70th birthday.
--
Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com
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Re: Scary Day Right Here in River City
Yep. The only calming factor was that I was able to locate the
shooting site on the web within minutes... Smith Fila Law Offices.
It's quite unlikely that my son-in-law would be out of the courthouse
(except for investigating a crime scene... he's the only person in
Yuma with enough brains to investigate at CSI levels :-)
I figured divorce or defense attorney... possibly someone got sent up,
and when they got out, got even ;-)
...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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