Authorities say a gunman opened fire at the Valley Transportation Authority building in San Jose during a shift change on Wednesday morning, killing eight and injuring several others; the shooter died by suicide. This was one of the deadliest gun incidents to ever happen in Northern California,
"When are we going to come to grips with this?" Gavin Newsom asked during a news conference. "When are we going to put down our arms, literally and figuratively, our politics, the stale rhetoric, finger-pointing, all the hand-wringing, consternation that produces nothing except more fury and frustration, more scenes like this repeated over and over and over again." He said it is time to "take a little damn responsibility, all of us," and "move beyond the platitudes and usual rhetoric" that come after a mass shooting.
Looking at this from a country with virtually no gun deaths, this looks completely insane. It has to stop.
"When are we going to come to grips with this?" Gavin Newsom asked during a news conference. "When are we going to put down our arms, literally and figuratively, our politics, the stale rhetoric, finger-pointing, all the hand-wringing, consternation that produces nothing except more fury and frustration, more scenes like this repeated over and over and over again." He said it is time to "take a little damn responsibility, all of us," and "move beyond the platitudes and usual rhetoric" that come after a mass shooting.
Looking at this from a country with virtually no gun deaths, this looks completely insane. It has to stop.