Skip to main content Currently Reading Editorial: Why massacres like the San Jose shooting aren't as inevitable as they have come to seem FacebookTwitterEmail A Valley Transportation Authority display of the shooting victims.Josie Lepe/Special to the Chronicle Shootings such as the one that killed nine transit workers in San Jose on Wednesday can engender a sense of futility about gun violence. California has the strictest gun laws in the country, according to one analysis, and yet the Bay Area just suffered its deadliest gun massacre to date. What’s the point? Such fatalism is understandable in the shadow of an atrocity. It’s also wrong.