Los Altos and Mountain View schools and law enforcement agencies mourned the killing of 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last week, including 19 schoolchildren. In the
A disgruntled employee who gunned down nine co-workers at a Northern California railyard Wednesday morning appears to have circumvented some of the state’s strict gun laws.
San Jose rail yard killer evaded California’s tough gun laws
By John WoolfolkTribune News Service
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SAN JOSE, Calif. The smoke had barely cleared after Wednesday’s deadly rampage by a disgruntled maintenance worker at a San Jose light rail yard when it became the focus of the nation’s fevered debate over gun laws.
The San Francisco Bay Area’s deadliest mass shooting prompted President Joe Biden to urge Congress to “help end this epidemic of gun violence in America.” Gov. Gavin Newsom visited the scene and recalled another mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in 2019. Advocates for stricter gun laws argued that this latest in a series of mass shootings nationally is proof of the need for more federal laws.