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20 Victims in California Shooting

posted by azrael on Wednesday December 02 2015, @08:45PM   Printer-friendly

"exec" writes:

Police are attending a shooting in California, with reports of 20 victims, say officials.

From the BBC:

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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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by PinkyGigglebrain on Thursday December 03 2015, @05:34AM

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Thursday December 03 2015, @05:34AM (#271213)

    People like Fienstien will claim that the only way the shooters could have gotten the guns was from outside CA and that a national ban is needed.

    Something of note, if the info I heard on CNN is correct the shooters were using AKs, which are already illegal in CA.

    In fact they where some of the first "assault weapons" to be banned in CA because some sicko killed 5 children at a school in Stockton with one. What is really twisted is the shooter didn't buy the gun in CA in the first place (purchased at a gun shop in Oregon) and already had a criminal history that should have precluded him owning a gun at all.

    Thing is there was no effort to actually deal with the real issue of the shooter, he was seriously screwed up in the head and should have been in a mental hospital or jail, but as has always been the case the politicians went after the low hanging fruit that made for good photo ops rather than puch legislation that would actually help with the root causes of violence.

    Because guns or not, if someone wants to kill a bunch of people they will find a way. About half of the worst massacres in the last 100 years, and the ones with the highest total fatalities, did not involve the use of any guns.

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