Three dead, three wounded in sword attack at Irvine grocery store (No Gun No Story)

ASSOCIATED PRESS | June 30,2003 | Gail Schiller

[Travis McGee]

He asked them, "When I sent you on mission without purse or traveling bag or sandals, were you in need of anything?"

"Not a thing they replied."

He said to them, "Now however, the man who has a purse must carry it, the same with a traveling bag. And the man without a sword must sell his coat and buy one."

Luke 22:35

[Travis McGee]

"Whatever."

Yeah, whatever. 24 hours, 24 minutes, no big deal to an ignoramus.

[pepperhead]

This sounds like a prior episode of Law & Order.

[Larry Lucido]

Last I heard, Zed was dead.

[Squantos]

21 foot rule applied in fine fashion.......Stay Safe !

[Xenalyte]

Let the record show that I was FReeping during the incident.

[MineralMan]

I'm sorry, but I thought advertising was prohibited here on FR. Shoot, if you can advertise your own products and website here, I'd like to do that, too.

[Joe Brower]

[MineralMan]

"Yeah, whatever. 24 hours, 24 minutes, no big deal to an ignoramus."

Yes, well, when you posted the story, it was already on the AP wires, right? So, it was already nationally distributed. But thanks for the gratuitous insult. May I have another?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Let the record show that I was FReeping during the incident.

Since there were only 2 done in, we knew it couldn't be you.

[Larry Lucido]

the clan McCloud

[Heyworth]

Well, so far it's been on NPR this morning, made the front page of the metro section of the L.A. Times, and it's on the main page of the ABC News and CNN websites, and on the National News page of the Chicago Tribune. It's on the AP, as your post proves. Figure it will make the national newscasts tonight.

Even if it doesn't fit into some anti-gun agenda, a story about a guy killing people with a samurai sword in a grocery store is just too sexy to ignore. The only problem is that it happened on a Sunday, generally a lightly-staffed slow news day, and the national news will have to pick up the local reporting, 24 hours behind.

[archy]

We don't know who owns these swords!
Why does anyone NEED these swords?
Clearly, some legislation is going to be necessary to protect everyone from these sword nuts!

When I was in Stockholm in the mid 1960s, I noticed that the police there carried a 4-foot-long sword in addition to the little .32 semiauto Browning pistols they wore in a full-flap holster on their belts. They had remarkably few problems from obnoxious drunks, and their sabers almost certainly were capable of doing a better job of immediately stopping a deranged or intoxicated individual on a murderous bent, as per the old Viking berserker or Germanic Blutrausch than the FMJ .32 auto bullets might.

-archy-/-

[MineralMan]

"Well, so far it's been on NPR this morning, made the front page of the metro section of the L.A. Times, and it's on the main page of the ABC News and CNN websites, and on the National News page of the Chicago Tribune. It's on the AP, as your post proves. Figure it will make the national newscasts tonight. "

That was my point as well. It _is_ national news, so the "no gun--no story" business is bogus. There was no gun, yet the story is getting wide circulation nationwide, and even internationally. But, hey, I'm an "ignoramus" according to the poster, so what the heck do I know?

[archy]

No Gun = No Story.

Okay, *here's one* with a gun in the story for you. Happily, it's not terribly over-dramatized or demonized, but we'll see what happens if it hits the national wireservices....

-archy-/-

[martin_fierro]

When "Hiya!" becomes "HIIIIIII-YAAAAAAAAAH!"

<|:)~

[gc4nra]

Heard it this morning on KABC 790(home of Larry Elder)up here in LongBeach.

[Heyworth]

It's something you see all the time on FR. Somebody posts a news story, then claims that the press is ignoring the story. "Look! See this news story? Proof that the media is covering up this story!" Usually, like this, it's a local crime story. Some people see conspiracies behind everything.

[ThreeYearLurker]

Here ya go.

[MineralMan]

"Somebody posts a news story, then claims that the press is ignoring the story. "Look! See this news story? Proof that the media is covering up this story!" "

Yeah, I have noticed that. It's comical when a story comes from the AP, meaning that it has already acheived national status, yet is posted as an example of the media ignoring something.

Oh well.