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Six dead in Emcore shooting
Mark LaPedus
7/12/2010 9:23 PM EDT
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A former employee of Emcore Corp. shot and killed five individuals and injured four others at Emcore, an Albuquerque, N.M.-based solar and fiber optics manufacturer, according to reports.
The former employee, a man who was not identified, entered Emcore on Monday morning and started to shoot, according to reports. Then, the man killed himself, according to reports.
It has been a bad period for Emcore. The company recently signed a purchase agreement to create a joint venture with Tangshan Caofeidian Investment Corp. (TCIC), a Chinese investment company located in Caofeidian Industry Zone, Tangshan City, Hebei Province of China.
The agreement provides for TCIC to purchase a 60 percent interest in Emcore's Fiber Optics business, excluding its satellite communications and specialty photonics fiber optics product lines, which will be operated as a joint venture once the transaction is closed. The new joint venture entity will be named Emcore Fiber Optics, Limited (EFO), and registered in Hong Kong. The agreement provides for TCIC to pay Emcore approximately $27.8 million in cash and provide an additional funding of $27 million to EFO after the closing.
Late last month, Emcore and TCIC withdrew their joint filing with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The withdrawal was made jointly in response to an indication from CFIUS that it has certain regulatory concerns about the transaction as it is currently proposed.
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Nic_Mokhoff
7/13/2010 11:53 AM EDT
The tragedy at Emcore is human and from reports was a domestic dispute gone bad. It may not be related to the company's business direction. Poor employees who witnessed this; don't wish this on any company or person.
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Standfast
7/13/2010 8:26 PM EDT
People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a forced monopoly.
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WKetel
7/13/2010 10:12 PM EDT
Standfast is on the right track. More fundamentaly, statistics will show that most crimes are committed by lawbreakers, that is, individuals who choose to violate the law. Those same individuals seldom choose to abide by other parts of the law. So the very predicable outcome of removing arms from law-abiding people is that the people who have the arms will be mostly criminals. And of course, the California news media will completely ignore the facts and only trumpet that somebody was shot. Does anbody remember that old song, "Dirty Laundry"?
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jackOfManyTrades
7/14/2010 3:23 AM EDT
Standfast/WKetel what you don't appreciate is that if you restrict guns then criminals don't carry them either because (a) they're hard to get hold of (I wouldn't know where to get a gun in the UK - you can't just walk into a shop and buy one) and (b) because no one has guns criminals don't need them. So, in the the UK, only a tiny minority of crime involves guns and that that does tends to be committed by the sort of people you wouldn't mess with whether you had a gun or not. Basically, I prefer my criminals not to be armed.
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