After two bloodbaths in three days, California had to mourn 19 deaths on Tuesday morning. Despite falling crime rates in the United States, the number of firearm crimes is on the rise. Restrictions — the way California wants them — often fail in court.
New York/Monterey Park/Half Moon Bay. “At the hospital, meeting gunshot victims when I’m pulled aside to be told about another shooting.” Governor Gavin Newsom wrote on Twitter about his anger. “Tragedy after tragedy.”
His state, California, witnessed two major massacres in three days. Once, late Saturday night, the day before the Asian Lunar New Year, 72-year-old Huu Can Tran fired 42 rounds from a semi-automatic pistol at the Star Ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park. He kills nine people before killing himself in a confrontation with police the next day. Then, on Monday, Chunli Z., 67, got into his car to shoot workers first at a farm and then at a second one in Half Moon Bay. He kills seven people and then turns himself in to the police.