California shooting motive not yet known, terror ‘possible’: Obama

There have been more mass shootings than calendar days this year.

“The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world”, Obama said in the interview, which was conducted shortly after he was briefed by his Homeland Security adviser on the situation.

San Bernardino County Sheriffs deputies respond to a mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center December 2, 2015 in San Bernardino, California.

“At this stage, we do not yet know why the bad event occurred”, Obama said. Here’s news you probably missed: A gunman in Savannah, Georgia, shot four people early Wednesday, killing a woman and injuring three men.

In the past week, there have been six mass shootings, ShootingTracker.com reports – including the shootout at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

On the Washington Post map, the yellow circle is San Bernardino, sized to represent the number of victims. The list of the deadliest shootings on record are shown in the chart below.Manyof thosewith the most severe death tolls have happened in the past decade.

In October, a student killed nine people and injured nine others at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.

The 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, also known as the Virginia Tech massacre, remains the deadliest of these incidents, claiming the lives of 32 people.

“As I said just a few months ago, and I said a few months before that, and I said each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough”.