IMPERIAL, Calif. — Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor.
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The responding officers — eight teenage boys and girls, the youngest 14 — face tripwire, a thin cloud of poisonous gas and loud shots — BAM! BAM! — fired from behind a flimsy wall. They move quickly, pellet guns drawn and masks affixed.
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(Bruce Note: YOU SEE, THE TERRORISTS ARE NOW DOMESTIC! GET READY... WHERE IS PAUL REVERE WHEN WE NEED HIM???)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/14explorers.html?_r=1
