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To: Graystone who wrote (89528)	11/24/2004 7:50:15 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi Graystone: This from a piece in today's NY Times: Mr. Vang, 36, is a Hmong refugee from Laos who came to the United States in 1980. He was a truck driver and lived in St. Paul, a center of the Hmong-American community. WCCO-TV in Minneapolis reported he was trained as a sharpshooter in the California National Guard. The episode (as we know about it now) strikes me as fueled by fear-- both on the part of the group of white hunters (racist epithets= fear) and Vang, who thought he was in imminent danger of being severely hurt or killed. It does disturb me greatly, though, if it is true that Vang is a trained sharpshooter, that he didn't shoot to wound the gunman, then take the time necessary to see whether anyone else held a gun before shooting them. I think we should try to without judgement until more facts are out in the press-- which I think is your point. And see it as a tragedy for all concerned.