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To: tejek who wrote (142035)	1/22/2002 2:19:32 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1585682

Right! The pilots both ejected and are alive and well I'm leaving here for a while. I need to get away from your low-30s IQ.

To: tejek who wrote (142035)	1/22/2002 2:28:56 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585682

Writers of news stories for some reason don't want to mention it when a murderer is stopped by a civilian armed with a gun. A couple of examples - Message 16942836 "Officials said students ended the rampage by confronting and then tackling the gunman." siliconinvestor.com "Todd Ross, 30, of Johnson City, Tenn., was among the students who were outside when Odighizuwa left the building. Ross said the suspect was holding his hands in the air and dropped the gun at his prompting." Both stories are about the same incident where a gunman was stopped by Traci Bridges who pointed his gun at the criminal and said "Stop or I will shoot"! But you don't see anything about that in the story, its just "he was confronted", or he was "holding his hands in the air". I think this is one of the reasons that many people don't realize how often criminals are stopped with guns in the US. Tim