Asian Americans were reeling Tuesday after two mass shootings in California targeting members of their community left 18 people dead — with the alleged gunmen in both cases being older men of Asian descent. The killings came in a span of just 48 hours — so close together that California governor Gavin Newsom was at […]
Asian Americans were reeling Tuesday after two mass shootings in California targeting members of their community left 18 people dead -- with the alleged gunmen in both cases being older men of Asian descent. The killings came in a span of just 48 hours -- so close together that California governor Gavin Newsom was at…
The killings came in a span of just 48 hours — so close together that California governor Gavin Newsom was at a hospital meeting with victims of the first when he was pulled away to be briefed about the second.The carnage prompted President Joe Biden to renew calls for Congress to act quickly on an assault weapons ban. A group of senators on Monday reintroduced a federal assault weapons ban and legislation that would raise the minimum purchase age for assault weapons to 21.
The nonpartisan Violence Project says 79 percent of mass shooters from 1966-2020 were under the age of 45. It says a mere 6.4 percent of mass shooters in that time are Asian. Four people were dead at one of them and one was critically wounded, while three more fatally wounded victims were found at a second location.“It was in the afternoon when kids were out of school and for children to witness it is unspeakable,” she said.
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