By Josh Resnek
Eleven Asian people celebrating the Asian New Year were slaughtered near to Los Angeles in a Monterey dance hall over the weekend by a crazed gunman who later took his own life.
It was certainly an act of domestic terrorism but the fact an Asian gunman did the killing of other Asians makes this a hard case to prove.
Some news organizations have reported this was the 33rd mass shooting of the New Year 2023 and we’re only 25 days into the new year, if you can imagine that.
Add to this Monday another mass shooting in California with another seven innocents dead.
This time, the perpetrator was caught. He sitting in jail.
Some law enforcement officials took comfort in the fact the California shooter in the first instance apparently did not use a high powered assault weapon.
Everett and all our surrounding communities have somehow, so far, been free type of savage violence and senseless mass shootings.
We are left to wonder, how many people living in Everett have assault weapons in their homes?
Legally and illegally?
How many people carrying or owning weapons are mentally ill or deranged enough to shoot innocents?
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