"The Tec-9 should jog all of our memories here in San Francisco because it was 11 years ago next Thursday that a man named Gian Luigi Ferri walked into that law firm at 101 California Street and shot 14 people - killing eight of them - in a matter of moments. Then he shot himself."

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