Posted on 04/11/2009 4:15:29 PM PDT by neverdem
In November, Jiverly A. Wong walked into an employment center in downtown Binghamton. He had been laid off from his job at a vacuum cleaner plant, and he needed help applying for unemployment benefits.
Speaking in broken English, he struggled to communicate with a receptionist. She told Mr. Wong that a phone number that he could call for assistance provided information in Chinese or Japanese. She asked him if he was either one.
“No, I’m Vietnamese!” Mr. Wong told her, before turning around and storming out.
Nearly two decades after arriving in America from Vietnam, Mr. Wong still had trouble with basic English, a fact of life for many immigrants, but a problem he seemed especially sensitive about. He was an introvert who was secretive in the extreme, keeping his love of guns and target shooting — and even his marriage — hidden from his family, his oldest sister said. They had improved their English-speaking skills and advanced their careers, while Mr. Wong, now jobless, had moved back in with his parents on a dead-end street in nearby Union.
“I think he felt low and small,” said the sister, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Nga. “But he didn’t share his thoughts. He would always just say he was O.K.”
On April 3, Mr. Wong had a 10 a.m. appointment at the employment center. He did not show.
Thirty minutes later and less than two blocks away, Mr. Wong walked into the American Civic Association, where he had recently taken an English class with other immigrants. Mr. Wong, 41, returned to his old classroom and, in one of New York State’s deadliest mass shootings, killed 13 former classmates and association employees and wounded four others, firing 98 shots from two handguns in about a minute, before...
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Yeah but not as uncommon as you might think. I know a guy who was married for nearly a year before he told his family and moved in with his wife.
Unless he married a white girl and his family doesn’t approve of that sort of thing.
Not if your wife is a beast.
It appears to me that this man was mentally ill.
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Xiu Ping Jiang doesn't sound like any Caucasian I know.
I got married twice and never told my wife. Not unusual at all.
Was this after a minimum wage increase?
I worked at a vaccum cleaner plant once........It sucked.
He was an introvert who was secretive in the extreme
Why is being an introvert always 'bad'? I'm an introvert!
And if you think being secretive is bad, then you have no grounds for whining about "invasion of privacy"!
Sorry, just had to get that out of my system.
Poor, poor, innocent immigrant; so much to ponder and understand...but the guns are guilty as sin.
And if his car that he used to blockade the rear doors had been an SUV, they’d be demanding background checks and waiting periods for them, too.
A psycho murdered a bunch of innocent people; I just can’t work up any sympathy for him, no matter how many rivers they cry over his problems.
Jeez, he was here 20 years?
If I lived in Nam for that long, I could and would
know how to speak the language.
English should be the official language of the Unite States,
all paper work should be in english only.
How did he get a pistol permit?
That’s a valid point.
LOL.
A Korean business owner in California liked to hire Asians to work in his electronic assembly plant. Specifically he liked to hire Vietnamese and Cambodians. This created friction because each group insisted on speaking their own language. Every day there were squabbles on the workroom floor because of language.
Finally the Korean owner had had enough. He called everyone together for a meeting and said, look, this isn’t Vietnam and Cambodia. This is California. When you are at work, speak spanish.
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Well, I think he got it in California, and then transfered it to NY or NJ. California probably has the application for a permit printed in 93 languages and available in Braille, on request.
Yep he was crazy.
He works at a low wage factory and he tells his co-workers that he has a $500 gun in his glove box.
Hey anybody who wants to break in to my car can have my Glock.
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