California shooting rampage may have been a terrorist attack: Obama

US President Obama said Thursday that terrorism may have been the motive for the shooting rampage in San Bernardino, California in which 14 people were killed and 17 others were wounded.
"It is possible that this is terrorist-related, but we don't know. It's also possible this was workplace-related," he said. "There may be mixed motives in all this, which makes the investigation more complicated. But rest assured, we will get to the bottom of this."
The president added that the gunmen were "equipped with weapons and appeared to have access to additional weaponry at their homes, but we don't know why they did it."
On Wednesday, Obama reiterated his call for stricter firearm laws to halt the onslaught of gun violence nationwide.
“We have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world,” he said. The latest attack was the 355th mass shooting of 2015 in the United States.  

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