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alan · April 17, 2007, 10:51 PM

Seems as if the shooter was Korean, and had been in the U.S. since early 1990's, when he was age 8 or thereabouts.

Another point of interest. Some Television Network "news shows", Fox if I read correctly, described one handgun as 22 millimeter, rather than 22 caliber. Anyone at all familiar with the metric system would know that 22mm was very near to 1 inch in diameter, which would make for one hellish large handgun.

As I've mentioned in a post elsewhere, most media types do not know the breach end of a firearm from the muzzle end, and neither, it seems do the clowns that write the scripts for those talking heads.

April 17, 2007, 10:51 PM	#24
alan Senior Member Join Date: June 7, 1999 Posts: 3,847	Seems as if the shooter was Korean, and had been in the U.S. since early 1990's, when he was age 8 or thereabouts. Another point of interest. Some Television Network "news shows", Fox if I read correctly, described one handgun as 22 millimeter, rather than 22 caliber. Anyone at all familiar with the metric system would know that 22mm was very near to 1 inch in diameter, which would make for one hellish large handgun. As I've mentioned in a post elsewhere, most media types do not know the breach end of a firearm from the muzzle end, and neither, it seems do the clowns that write the scripts for those talking heads.