San Bernardino: The dead had not yet even been counted by the time the murder of 14 healthcare workers in the city of San Bernardino in Southern California was fed into the maw of America's partisan divide. Were these the victims of a workplace massacre or terrorism, the contemporary American scourge of mass shootings or of lax gun control? The answer to these questions appeared to depend on your politics. As a battle in the culture war was waged over these questions, families around San Bernardino began to contemplate the terrible scope of their loss and authorities went about piecing together the lives of the dead suspects, Syed Rizwan Farook, a 28-year-old US citizen, and his Pakistani...
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