Monterey Park community reacts to mass shooting during Lunar New Year.

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The city of Monterey Park, California, had planned to gather in celebration this week. Instead, they joined together in mourning as the community held a vigil for 11 people murdered at a local dance hall just two days before.

Residents and leaders of the city's Asian-American community organised a candlelight memorial outside the city hall on Monday evening to honour the victims, holding a powerful three-minute moment of silence and reciting prayers from a range of faiths.

"Our joyous Lunar New Year celebration was turned utterly upside down into tragedy and fear," said Representative Judy Chu. "We must support one another and work our way through this."

[Pattaya Spotter]

California's gun confiscation policies don't seem to be working all that well...

 

A barrage of gun violence left the nation’s most populous state groping for answers on Tuesday as the death toll from mass shootings in California rose to at least 25 people in a little over a week.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/24/us/california-shootings/california-grapples-with-two-mass-shootings-in-three-days?smid=url-share

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

California's gun confiscation policies don't seem to be working all that well...

 

A barrage of gun violence left the nation’s most populous state groping for answers on Tuesday as the death toll from mass shootings in California rose to at least 25 people in a little over a week.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/24/us/california-shootings/california-grapples-with-two-mass-shootings-in-three-days?smid=url-share

You should check the stats, its doing better than most states. Link already provided in this OP