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In the immortal words of my grandpa: "it is to barf". If this kind of
attitude continues to spread, US society will degenerate into the morass
of mindless violence that plagues parts of Eastern Europe and
Africa (among other less than garden spots of the world). Can anyone
still rationally argue that every US citizen should have a constitutionally
protected right to buy automatic weapons without a background check? The
authorities knew this nut (not Mark Brown) had already killed one of his
families a couple of years ago, just couldn't prove it beyond a reasonable
doubt.
-uf
At 11:11 AM 7/30/99 -0400, Ross Kovacs wrote:
>... and in bad taste. Sorry, I couldn't help it: a slight rewording of a
>news report.
>
>
>The incongruous killer:
>Chilling portrait of Brown emerges
>
>By Alan Judd
>Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer
>
>When Mark Brown walked into a Buckhead stock brokerage office
>Thursday afternoon, he wore the same genial countenance he displayed
>even in his driver's license photos: a warm smile across a round face
>topped by a shock of dark curly hair - hardly the look of a killer.
>
>"He greeted people on the way in," Harvey Hautkin, a spokesman for
>All-Tech Investment Services, said later. And, Hautkin said, as he
>began blasting away with two handguns, Barton told his victims, "I
>hope I'm not upsetting your trading day."
>
>Such incongruity clouded the portrait that emerged late Thursday of
>the 44-year-old Mark Brown, apparently one of trading's worst mass
>murderers.
>
>"We have no information at all" on what set off the killing spree,
>Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell said late Thursday, "except we're certain
>Mr. Brown came to Piedmont Road and killed nine people he thought
>were named Cruz."
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