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Police are attending a shooting in California, with reports of 20 victims, say officials.
Fire officials in San Bernardino said it was responding to a "20 victim shooting incident" and it was working to clear the scene.
ABC News reports that there are 12 people dead but police have not confirmed that number.
It is still a "very active scene" and police are trying to secure the building, said a police spokeswoman.
There may be up to three gunmen, she said, and they were heavily armed and possibly wearing body armour.
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 03 2015, @03:33AM
I suspect that you are searching to hard for plausible reasons. One fact about American society stands out, no matter what facet of that society you are considering. The United States incarcerates more people than just about all the world combined. For fun and profit, corporations step forward to warehouse both juvenile and adult men in prisons, where conditions are conducive to breaking people's minds, wills, and spirits. People who just don't fit, people who invoke the ire of random cops and/or prosecutors, people who have nowhere else to go, people who are just dumb and/or poor, wind up on the inside of prison walls for years. Petty theives, nose pickers, masturbators, tax cheats, you name it, and they get locked up. The marginally sane, instead of getting real help, are locked up, and driven round the bend.
In short, the US is a pressure cooker. When a little steam escapes the pressure cooker, the "law and order" types want to pass even more laws, and punish more people.