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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Friday, December 4th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

On Wednesday, less than a week after a shooting at Planned Parenthood that killed three people,

two suspects besieged a San Bernardino Health Center, leaving 14 dead.

Here's Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaking yesterday to the Republican Jewish

Coalition.

All of us are deeply concerned that this is yet another manifestation of terrorism,

radical Islamic terrorism here at home.

Coming on the wake of the terror attack in Paris, this horrific murder underscores that we are at a time of war.

In 2012, 20 school children and teachers were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Since then, there have been more than 1,040 mass shootings in the U.S.

Evan Osnose joins me to talk about how the violence figures into our war against terror.

So, Evan, there's been a lot of talk about whether this was an act of terrorism, this most recent mass shooting, but isn't

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