Details on today's deadly shooting rampage in San Bernardino are just beginning to emerge, but conservatives are already responding with cookie cutter-like predictability on Twitter. As 14 people lay dead and more than a dozen are being treated for wounds, these keyboard warriors are polluting the Internet with the same kinds of ill-advised humor and crass arguments that inevitably follow America's weekly mass shooting...
Hey, I'm all for gun control for Middle Eastern men
— Patrick Howley (@PatrickHowleyDC) December 2, 2015
#YouMightBeALiberal if the NRA is evil for the endings of lives it didn't commit, but Planned Parenthood isn't for all those it did.
— Razor (@hale_razor) December 2, 2015
People keep blaming the NRA for mass shootings, but they weren't so common until after Obama told people to take guns to knife fights.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 2, 2015
I’m sure the last thing any victims of any of these shootings would’ve wanted would be their own gun.
— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) December 2, 2015
so now that this looks like terrorism, Obama is preparing his listless, disengaged, this-isn't-such-a-big-deal speech.
— The Scandalous DJT (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 2, 2015
Ultimate Dilemma For President Obama: If science determined more guns would end climate change.
— Lee Stranahan (@stranahan) December 2, 2015
THERE'S AN ACTIVE SHOOTER SITUATION WITH GUNMEN ON THE LOOSE AND THIS IS @HillaryClinton'S FOCUS RIGHT NOW--NOTED https://t.co/3rway2jz8u
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) December 2, 2015
I know why you would say this, but not why you'd expect anyone to believe it. No stop & frisk, for example? https://t.co/4nP4tG06xI
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) December 2, 2015
Well, CA's gun control laws ensured none of the victims could be armed, so I guess you got what you say you wanted. @kaitlyn_black29
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 2, 2015
Watch firsthand accounts from friends and family waiting outside the scene of the San Bernadino shooting:
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Watch our recap of what 2016 presidential candidates have said about the San Bernardino shooting:
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