"It's a little disarming"

[Nancy Friedman]

But not in a cute way.





See fifth graf from end of story (8 killed in Southern California salon
shooting
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/10/12/national/a14215
4D41.DTL> ):



>"It's a little disarming," she said. "This is such a quiet community. We
don't expect things like this."<



"Disturbing" + "alarming"?



Nancy



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