California's Asian community is increasingly alarmed by multiple Asian-on-Asian mass shootings, including many deaths.
This hits home hard because my wife and son are both Asian and US citizens who fly like American eagles.
'But the shooter was Asian!' That doesn't negate the reality of anti-Asian violence.
It's an instinctive rebuttal to any support being sent to my community as if the shooter also being Asian makes it any less devastating.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/01/25/california-sho…
Their individual motives for mass murder may have been different, but they were all Asian men of retirement age, who within the past year are accused of expressing their bitterness by spraying fellow Asians with bullets, in the very places where Asian immigrants go escape isolation.
According to the LA Times, even as they grieve the victims, Asian Americans are grappling with a new reality. Someone who looks like their grandfather, who traveled a similar immigrant path, did a singularly American thing — open fire on a group of innocent people.
- Half Moon Bay shootings that left seven dead appear to be a case of workplace violence, law enforcement officials say.
- The victims of the Monterey Park shooting attack are remembered as dancers, beloved family members, and pillars of the community.
- Three mass shootings have been carried out in one week in California, in Goshen, Monterey Park, and Half Moon Bay.
- After a wave of mass shootings, what’s next for gun control in California?
- Is it just a coincidence that a 67-year-old man shot and killed seven people in Half Moon Bay just two days after a 72-year-old man shot 11 people to death in Monterey Park?
- Police officials are facing scrutiny over how long it took them to notify the public that the Monterey Park gunman was still on the loose.
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