Another one

[Pcdunn]

I'm not getting the impression it was a disgruntled employee acting on the spur of the moment, nor a "lone wolf" gunman such as the one who hit the Planned Parenthood building in Colorado Springs.

These people were prepared with "long guns" and a vehicle (which ended up riddled with SWAT bullets), and hit a large campus serving four age-groupings of people with developmental disablities, ranging from birth to over sixty. Fourteen dead, eighteen wounded. San Bernadino police chief called it "domestic terrorism", but I haven't heard quite what he means by that. As for the man with the Arabic-sounding name, I have not heard it first hand yet, just that it is a rumor.
Bad part is, as an employee said, some people with autism or sensory-processing difficulties could have had trouble obeying the orders of the cops trying to evacuate them.

[Pcdunn]

It was a bit of both, it seems. Someone employed at the health department was at the Inland Regional Center's Christmas party, got into an argument, and left. He returned with heavy weapons, more people, body armor, pipe bombs and set about killing people. So it was workplace violence, but obviously a pre-planned terror attack as well.

Update on the suspects:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/san-bernardino-shooting-relative-man-believed-suspect-shock/story?id=35547219

[GUT]

It was a bit of both, it seems. Someone employed at the health department was at the Inland Regional Center's Christmas party, got into an argument, and left. He returned with heavy weapons, more people, body armor, pipe bombs and set about killing people. So it was workplace violence, but obviously a pre-planned terror attack as well.

Update on the suspects:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/san-bernard...ry?id=35547219

I wondered if the attack was planned for somewhere else and the argument caused a change in targets, or if the argument was contrived.

[Shaggyrand]

I wondered if the attack was planned for somewhere else and the argument caused a change in targets, or if the argument was contrived.

I lean toward the argument changed the target. Guy got pissed, thought "**** it, let's kill these bastards instead. There's enough people here currently". Just seems an unusual place to attack otherwise. Maybe if the main target was an individual with as many others as possible when they did it and they saw it as their best opportunity. Other than that... it's an odd place to attack in my view.

[Rosella]

I shall be interested to find out, as we will in the course of time, about the argument that developed between Farook and others at the Xmas gathering.

Like others I'm inclined to think now that Farook was radicalised (perhaps by his Saudi wife, who apparently could handle a semi-automatic weapon) and was looking around for a target. Any excuse was better than none, even fellow workers who had thrown him a baby shower only a few months before.