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The Democratic governor of the richest state in the United States is campaigning for much more restrictive legislation on the carrying of weapons in the country while California has just been hit by two large-scale shootings.
“Tragedy upon tragedy.” On Monday, Gavin Newsom was at a hospital near Los Angeles to meet with victims of the Monterey Park mass shooting. In a discotheque of this small town of 60,000 inhabitants, a man had burst Saturday evening weapon in hand, before shooting 42 times in the crowd and making 11 dead and 9 injured. Still at the bedside of the survivors, the governor of California was “made aware that another shooting” had taken place, he explains. on Twitter. 600 km further north, near San Francisco, 7 people of Asian origin had just been killed on farms in Half Moon Bay.
On his social networks as in the interviews given on the fly to journalists, Gavin Newsom laments. He says he has “shame” to be confronted “again and again and again” to the same mass killings, then to the same “damn prayers and condolences”, with nothing ever changing. Shame to live
