It is a sad day when the Daily Mail gives you more details of a tragedy than any other paper but the LA times, which has a paywall.

On Wednesday morning, Farook and Malik dropped off their six-month-old baby with Farook’s mother, according to KTLA, saying they were going to a doctor’s appointment.

By noon, according to police, the couple had donned assault clothing, armed themselves with rifles and stormed a holiday party attended by San Bernardino County employees, killing 14 people and wounding 21 others.

Before sunset, after a massive manhunt and a violent shootout with police on a residential street in the city of Redlands, Farook and Malik lay dead.

By early Thursday afternoon, the first of the victims of the San Bernardino massacre have been identified as three health department workers.

Damian Meins, 58; Nicholas Thalasinos, 52; and Michael Wetzel, 37, were among the 14 shot dead inside at the Inland Regional Center on Wednesday.

Thalasinos’s wife, Jennifer, told the New York Times her husband was a co-worker of Farook’s at the health department and the two appeared friendly.

Meins had only been working at the San Bernardino County of Environmental Health Department for three months when he was shot dead. He leaves behind a wife, high-school sweetheart Trenna Meins, and two children, according to the Press Enterprise.

Wetzel also worked as an environmental health specialist with San Bernardino County. The 37-year-old leaves behind a wife, Renee, and six children.

Friends and family have identified two more victims: county health department employ Sierra Clayborn and Daniel Kaufman, 42, who ran a coffee shop at the Inland Regional Center.

On Thursday afternoon, a hospital official told reporters outside the Loma Linda Medical Center that two wounded people remain in a critical condition. Two others are in a fair condition and one is due to be released today.

Those who knew Malik Farook, among them his colleagues at the San Bernardino County Public Health Department, described him as a devout Muslim but not someone who often talked about religion.

‘He never struck me as a fanatic, he never struck me as suspicious,’ said Griselda Reisinger, a former colleague.

Members of two local mosques where Farook worshipped sounded a similar note Thursday, telling NBC News they knew him as a mild-mannered, peaceful and highly devout man.

They also insisted that if he had indeed been radicalized, it did not happen at their mosques.

‘We never saw him raise his voice. We never saw him curse at anyone, disrespect anyone. He was always a very nice guy, always very simple, very straightforward,’ Nazeem Ali, of Dar-al-Uloom, Al-Islamiyah mosque in San Bernardino told the station.

Ali confirmed that in 2013, Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia on the hajj – a religious pilgrimage that every adult Muslim must go on at least once – and to meet his fiancee, Tashfeen Malik, whom he intended to marry in the holiest shrine of Islam, the Black Stone in Mecca’s Grand Mosque.

This led to a marked demand for gun control from the media. As if regulations will prevent people acquiring stuff, or Pipe Bombs have ever been legal. But, the media became more foul. When local politicians said that the families had their thoughts and prayers — while the situation was still ongoing — they were criticized for not acting now.

Scum. The issues around guns and violence are ongoing: the USA has a constitutional provision on that. But during the event the correct thing to do is offer sympathy. Here, being creative, does not work.

By the way: “Thoughts and Prayers” is trite— but it’s even more trite to point this out. Because anyone who’s ever known someone who’s suffered a loss has offered thoughts and prayers, and realized that such words and sentiments were inadequate given the tragedy at hand.

And anyone in that situation has thought, “I wish I could say more.” In fact, starting out a letter of condolence with the statement “My words are inadequate…” is itself cliched and trite.

But here’s the thing: Anyone who’s tried to console someone bereaved has made this observation to himself a hundred times before. No matter how inadequate and trite “thoughts and prayers” may seem, there’s really no better way to say it. All words and actions are inadequate when someone loses a parent, or a child, or a spouse, after all.

I myself have tried to think of something more profound and novel twenty times before — and I’ve failed every time.

So yes, “thoughts and prayers” is a a little trite — but it’s far more trite and callow to claim it’s trite. Because anyone with a functioning neuron and some experience at comforting a bereaved person knows that as trite as “thoughts and prayers” is, there is simply no set of words or action that work some kind of magic to bring the lost one back to life.

In the face of death, all words and deeds of man are trite and insignificant.

Our callow, juvenile punk class of leftists continue proving they have the intellectual, emotional, and experiential capacity of a bad-tempered fourteen-year-old loser.

So, let us pray.

Most merciful God, whose wisdom is beyond our understanding: Deal graciously with these San Bernardino families in their grief.
Surround them with your love, that they may not be overwhelmed by their loss, but have confidence in your goodness, and strength to meet the days to come;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.