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The Democratic governor of the richest state in the United States is campaigning for much more restrictive gun laws 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 the victims of the mass shooting in Monterey Park. In a discotheque in this small town of 60,000, a man had exploded on Saturday night, gun in hand, before firing 42 times into the crowd, killing 11 and wounding 9. Still at the bedside of the survivors was the governor of California “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 murders, then to the same “damn prayers and condolences”, without anything ever changing. Shame to live
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