7 killed in two shootings in California communit

It’s like the Superbowl Playoffs and California is winning.

I thought California had strict gun laws?

r2 many, if not most, of these shooters have no criminal history.

R2, here are the numbers. Not one blue state among the top 10.

It's not even February.

Here’s the suspect! Another white supremacist. .

The gun access in the country are a fucking disgrace. The country is sick. SICK.

I really can't imagine why this keeps happening only in the United States.

What are the odds of having two mass shootings by two different Asian men 67+ years of age? Connected or just coincidental crazies?

Both these recent shooters suspects seem to be older Asian men. Just coincidence or was the second somehow triggered by the first?

[quote]The gun access in the country are a fucking disgrace. The country is sick. SICK.

It truly is. Private citizens can buy military-grade weapons any time they want. It's fucking insanity. What do people think is going to happen when these weapons are in the hands of the general public?

Fuuuuck! Half Moon Bay is so calm and sleepy. Interesting note @ r9 and r10. Was just thinking the same.

R11, that’s bullshit and why wasn’t there frequent mass shooters when guns were far more prevalent? Something happened since 1999

Busting stereotypes these guys are.

r13 these weapons like AR-15s weren't around long ago.

[quote] why wasn’t there frequent mass shooters when guns were far more prevalent?

What's wire hangers doing in this closet when I told you: no wire hangers ever?!

[quote] that’s bullshit and why wasn’t there frequent mass shooters when guns were far more prevalent? Something happened since 1999

The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB), was a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as certain ammunition magazines that were defined as large capacity.

The 10-year ban was passed by the U.S. Congress on August 25, 1994 and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994. The ban applied only to weapons manufactured after the date of the ban's enactment. It expired on September 13, 2004, in accordance with its sunset provision. Several constitutional challenges were filed against provisions of the ban, but all were rejected by the courts. There have been multiple attempts to renew the ban, but none have succeeded.

Oh look, another day ending in "y" !

This is terrible i have no idea what to do about it. Guns have just saturated the country now. It is little different than Mexico. In Mexico most of the gun violence is over drugs or territory but here its just random pissed off people just opening fire on anybody around. Damm it's a scary prospect.

[quote] Just coincidence or was the second somehow triggered by the first?

The first was named Tran, so perhaps the second was triggered by the T.

Terrorists.

Maybe he was pissed off about the price of gas in Half Moon Bay.

The next time you assholes want to dust off your greatest nation on earth bullshit: you're not. Your addiction is why.

Rational, intelligent Americans do not believe we're the greatest nation on Earth. We usually point to the incredibly civilized Scandinavian countries. And then we worry that we're being racist. But whatever.

Well there's about three of you, R25.

[quote] This is terrible i have no idea what to do about it. Guns have just saturated the country now. It is little different than Mexico. In Mexico most of the gun violence is over drugs or territory but here its just random pissed off people just opening fire on anybody around.

Oh, please. They hack up bodies in Mexico. It’s a shithole.

No R2. The entire country has lax, out of control gun laws.

[quote] We usually point to the incredibly civilized Scandinavian countries.

Overrun with Muslims and forced diversity. They’re not civilized at all. They still have a Neo-Nazi problem and don’t forget the Norwegian shooter.

You're a shithole too, R27. Stop kidding yourself. You can't get better until you admit you've got a problem. Stop being the Madonna's Instagram of nations.

Sum Ting Wong!

r26 must come from the most civilized country on Earth

My brother works in Half Moon Bay, lives outside of town in a rural area.

You can imagine my panic when I saw the headline. He was no where near the incident but fuck this is too close for comfort.

I can't imagine that a person's thought process that would allow them to kill even one person let alone mowing down multiple victims. Beyond sick.

I still feel upset, the families and friends of the victims must be in torment.

Disgruntled worker at a mushroom farm.

That's something you don't hear every day.

R32, that's a big group, compared to the company your's now keeps. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Russia...

r35 I'm enjoying the view of the sparkly lights of Manhattan right now, from my apartment (that I own) on the UES. One that you will never be able to afford. What's the view like where you are? Goodnight.

[quote][R2], here are the numbers. Not one blue state among the top 10.

You know that stat counts suicides, also, right r4? States like Wyoming and Alaska have the highest suicide rates, as well. Wyoming is #1 and Alaska is #2.

…living in red states will do that to you, r37. And you can easily buy the instrument of your demise at Walmart.

The gun violence in blue states is still outrageous, it's not really something to brag about that gun violence in blue states is lower than in red states. It's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. And I'm saying this as a lifelong blue state resident.

I’ve been hearing many anti Asian “jokes” since this weekend’s incident.

Totally distasteful and not funny.

This country is so fucked up and just overran with trash people.

The gun violence in blue states is still outrageous, it's not really something to brag about that gun violence in blue states is lower than in red states. It's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. And I'm saying this as a lifelong blue state resident.

R35, so American. I'm in my 1.5M dollar house in a safe country, looking down at you in your avarice and ignorance. Remember: duck!

Blue. Red. Doesn’t matter the whole country is a gun crazy madhouse. Until the Republicans no longer want it this way we have to live with the carnage.

Close the door R41, I’m getting an echo.

Gung hay fat choi!

You can say what you’d like about how dangerous the US is but people, including the young from the Nordic couturiers still are clamoring to get in, regardless.

[quote] I'm in my 1.5M dollar house in a safe country, looking down at you in your avarice and ignorance. Remember: duck!

There are no "safe countries." And 1.5m isn't much.

True r46. The US is still a top destination for immigrants.

r43 Most Democrats don't want to completely ban guns, either. You're, ironically, using a Republican talking point by suggesting this.

Anyway, the red/blue state argument on this issue is stupid. This country has a cultural problem with violence, in general. If it weren't guns, it'd be knives, like the UK.

If the UK had guns, it would be just as bad as the US.

r50 Exactly.

r46, cite statistics and evidence. Not seeing that here.

Brits are all over Florida and LA, for starters. They absolutely love both places.

Absolutely, R25. We need to shelve that shit.

I'd never heard of Half Moon Bay. it looks incredible.

Video footage of the arrest.

The guy looks like a little psycho creep.

He looks Southeast Asian.

Interestingly, most Asian gang members are either Filipino, Vietnamese, Lao, or Thai.

Those countries have a history of gun violence, whereas China, Japan and Korea do not.

Ts & Ps

Next!

I feel like I’m living in an altered universe. Another 17 people gunned gun in deaths more brutal than civilian deaths in Ukraine. Another DL thread where 1.5 million “isn’t much” and people brag about their wealth and do lots of ‘look over there’.

As one of the majority who will never own a gun, never have a 1.5 million home, never be able to hole up in a gated community or secured condo building……I just feel completely helpless and hopeless. I vote but that doesn’t do much good. I got an education, I’m a hard worker, I’ve worked 3 jobs when needed……I’ll never be rich, I’ll never be able to watch the world burn from my penthouse or run off to Canada.

Not sure about any other regular young(ish) Joes but I do feel that people like us are not too far removed from cannon fodder. We risk being blown to pieces in a supermarket while one side poses for Christmas cards with AR15s and the other sends love and support from their multi million homes while claiming to be middle class on $700,000 a year.

We live in a supposed democracy but the majority is being held in a chokehold by two minority groups who both think they are far more common and average than they actually are.

Not from the good countries R48.

But the UK doesn’t have guns, you halfwit R50 - which is why it doesn’t have the mass shootings that your beloved USA does. Did you actually type that out and not think of cause and effect?

I swear if DL is a reflection of a cross section of Americans you all cannot be saved. Of course, you don’t want to be, because of American Exceptionalism - it’s different for all of you, somehow.

Oh look, another mass shooting across in Oakland! Only one confirmed death - hardly worth reporting on, except for the 7 injuries.

Your culture is fucking heinous.

[quote]Another 17 people gunned gun in deaths more brutal than civilian deaths in Ukraine.

This hyperbole is of no use to anyone. Have you seen any of the videos of civilian deaths in Ukraine? Being shot is not more brutal than what they're going through. Ukrainian citizens are lucky if they were only shot, and not blown up, tortured, or crushed under a building.

[quote]Another DL thread where 1.5 million “isn’t much” and people brag about their wealth and do lots of ‘look over there’.

Yeah, that guy is a troll. If you refuse to put trolls on ignore, this is what happens. It's all up to you, even though you won't admit it. You must like to get upset by trolling if you continue to freak out about trolls instead of putting them on ignore.

Even if there were 5 mass shootings, 20 people killed in each shooting, every single day of the year, that would still be less than 1% of the total number of deaths in the United States each year.

I only say this to give a broader picture of how the number of shooting deaths in this country relates to the total number of deaths, I don't mean to say that we should just accept mass shootings as part of normal civilized society.

R59 nailed it.

And the "Wizard of Oz" keeps telling the little people like us to "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."

The gun laws are stricter in CA. The first shooter was making his own guns and had an arsenal.

[quote]While The Rest of the World Collectively Rolls It's Eyes

[quote]the company your's now keeps.

Oh, DEAR!

[quote]Disgruntled worker at a mushroom farm. That's something you don't hear every day.

True. Most mushroom farmers are usually very gruntled.

[quote]The entire country has lax, out of control gun laws.

Bullshit.

In fact, California has the strictest gun laws in the nation.

Laws do not stop lawbreakers.

[quote]Not from the good countries [R48].

Check out the white collar workforce in NYC, lots of immigrants from the "good countries."

[quote]But the UK doesn’t have guns, you halfwit [R50] - which is why it doesn’t have the mass shootings that your beloved USA does. Did you actually type that out and not think of cause and effect?

You must've missed the word "IF" in that post, idiot.

IF the UK had guns, it would be just as bad as the US. Think of all those white trash chavs with guns. And the militant Muslims. The mind shudders.

[quote]Your culture is fucking heinous.

UK culture and American culture are basically the same. The point is that the only thing stopping Brits from having the same level of gun crime is because the bulk of their citizens (and even police force) don't have guns. The knife crime in the UK, however, is a reflection of the same murderous, trashy, culture that if given the opportunity would mirror that of the US.

Remember, the US was founded by Brits who were basically tired of the British and their trashy culture. Sadly, some of that trashy culture stayed with them and was brought here. At the end of the day, though, the trash started in the UK. Just look at the BRF.

Don't forget the Irish and Scottish r71.

The have a suspect in custody.

It bothers me that my first thought was that at least the guy is also Asian, so was less likely to have been a racially motivated hate crime.

No one in power is seriously looking out for avg people, their safety, or their wallet. Especially not rich lawmakers or billionaires. Pricing entire swaths of the population out of the economy will drive much worse than a few shootings in the future, I fear. I expect to see gangs of bandits roaming the country in the next few decades. People who want to survive that mayhem (for whatever reason) will probably need lots of guns, sadly.

[quote]Remember, the US was founded by Brits who were basically tired of the British and their trashy culture.

Whilst we remember, perhaps you will tell us about this trashy culture of the 1700s, great historian.

Can we spare just one bullet for r75?

I know it's hard not to be defensive these days.

R76, are you still sulking from last night, up there in your penthouse, Lisa Douglas. You shut ins!

It's not a penthouse, it's an 11th floor co-op. But you're in a "safe" country so why do you care?

Poor R77 be like:

R77 r77 r80 (and i hardly block anybody.. )

You're so noble, R81. What an example to us all!