San Bernadino Takes Colorado Springs off the Front Page

Talk about becoming depressingly familiar. The attack on Planned Parenthood in Colorado last Friday already becomes old news.

"Officials are responding to a shooting with as many as 20 victims at the Inland Regional Center San Bernardino, California, the fire department said Wednesday. The scene remains active, and police confirmed there are fatalities.

"ABC7 reported up to 12 people are dead in the shooting, but authorities have not yet publicly confirmed any fatalities. Multiple early reports said police were seeking one to three gunmen, possibly wearing body armor and heavily armed."

"The Los Angeles Times reported police used a robot to detonate a suspicious device left after the suspects fled the scene in an SUV. San Bernardino Police spokeswoman Vicki Cervantes confirmed to the paper that "there are fatalities," but did not offer a number."

"A local crime journalist reported confirmation from the fire department that there are 20 to 25 victims. It was unclear if there were any fatalities."

"MSNBC was broadcasting live affiliate footage of victims receiving medical attention while lying on the ground and hunched over cars. Federal agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also at the scene."

"President Obama was briefed on the shooting."

"The Inland Regional Center, located at 1365 S. Waterman Ave., serves individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The center has have nearly 670 staffers to provide services for more than 30,200 people with developmental disabilities and their families, according to the center's Facebook page."

"Loma Linda University Medical Center, a nearby emergency room, was in "disaster mode" preparing for shooting victims to be transported, ABC7 reported."

Witnesses near the scene tweeted about a police SWAT team responding to evacuate people."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/san-bernardino-shooting-multiple-victims

Reportedly there is a Planned Parenthood down the street from this site as well-though there's no reason to believe PP was a target like it was Friday.

But this sure didn't take long did it?

Yet this won't change anything politically. There was no political will to do anything after Friday and there will be none this time. It's a shame, Let's pray about it and get back to Starbucks.

Bernie will again say 'Let's stop the shouting' the GOP will do nothing, the NRA will oppose anything.

It couldn't be more striking the difference between the reaction fo foreign and domestic terrorism. When there is foreign terrorism-even if we aren't the victims we have to do something even if the action is pointless or even counterproductive.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/12/is-congress-having-second-thoughts-on.html

After Paris Congress took some counterproductive actions. Now maybe they are rethinking it and that's good. But note how Congress did nothing in response to Friday.

After all, the GOP Congress shares Richard Dear's hatred of abortion. Today the Federalist has a post that basically justifies what Dear did.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/30/the-irony-of-planned-parenthood-condemning-murder/

The claim of this piece is that it's 'ironic' for PP to talk of 'murder''get it they murder every day. The author is essentially justifying Dear's actions then.

If those who provide abortions are murderers then Dear was justified, a martyr for Justice.

There likely will be no Congressional response to this shooting either. What it comes down to is foreign terrorism is taken much more seriously than the domestic version though that's the more palpable threat for Americans.

The number we have lost to domestic terrorism or mass shootings dwarfs those Americans dead to the foreign version post 9/11.

It's why President Obama's call for voting single issue on guns ought to be taken to heart.