SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The FBI says the California shooters had participated in target practice, including once within days of the attack that killed 14 people.
David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, said at a news conference Monday that Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, participated in target practice at ranges in the Los Angeles area.
He says the bureau believes both were radicalized and had been “for some time.” He says the bureau doesn’t know when or how they were radicalized.
The FBI has said it’s investigating the shooting at a holiday gathering of Farook’s co-workers as an act of terrorism.
Bowdich says investigators found 19 pipes in the couple’s home in Redlands, California, that could be turned into bombs with all the right components.
They make it sound like some kind of bug that gets inserted in your ear then crawls into your brain and then starts to control your mental functions.
Maybe there’s a cure for it??
If shooting military-type weapons at targets is a sign of “radicalization”, then America has many more possible terrorists than swarthy Muslims can provide.
Well, these radicals in fact share psychological similarities to cult followers. So deprogramming may in fact offer a sort of “cure”.
That bug is called religion.
I think I will have to stop listening to Hannity and Limbaugh. I sure don’t want to become radicalized.