Gun Violence
Monterey Park then Half Moon Bay: Gun violence is a pandemic. We need to act like it.
It's still only January, and America already has suffered dozens of mass shootings. It's another kind of pandemic, on top of the anti-Asian hate crimes that began with COVID-19.
Lanlan Xu
Opinion contributor
The Year of the Rabbit is supposed to bring peace, prosperity, longevity and calm. Instead, Asian American communities are in shock and grieving.
Not even 48 hours after a gunman killed 11 people at a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, California, two shooting sprees near Half Moon Bay to the north claimed the lives of seven Monday.