2 back-to-back mass Shootings in California now brings us to 37 mass shootings in 24 days

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More mass shootings, because of course.


No clear motives other than "disgruntlement" as of yet. 37 of these over just the first 24 days of this year is not looking good.

The US state of California is reeling from its third mass shooting in eight days after a man shot dead seven former co-workers south of San Francisco.

The attacks took place in the coastal city of Half Moon Bay. The victims were all Chinese-American farm workers.

Suspect Zhao Chunli, 67, was arrested after driving to a police station.

It comes as the state mourns the death of 11 at Monterey Park - about six hours south east of Half Moon Bay - during Lunar New Year celebrations.

And just over a week ago, six people including a teenage mother and baby were killed at a property in Goshen, central California.

California Governor Gavin Newsom tweeted that he was at a hospital meeting with victims of the earlier mass shooting when he was pulled away to be briefed about the second attack, describing it as "tragedy upon tragedy".

The latest bloodshed to hit the state took place at two farms around the Half Moon Bay community.
Four victims of the shooting attack were discovered at a mushroom farm while the other three were later found at a nearby trucking business. An eighth victim is being treated in hospital and is in a critical condition.

Half Moon Bay shooting locations


A number of children who had recently been let out of school and lived on the rural property saw the attack take place, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said.

"This kind of shooting is horrific. It's a tragedy we hear about far too often, but today it's hit home here in San Mateo County," the office said.

"For children to witness this is unspeakable."

After carrying out the killings, the suspect drove to a local police station where his arrest was caught on camera.

US news channels showed Zhao Chunli being pinned to the ground and arrested by police.

He was found with a semi-automatic pistol that may have been used in the attack, and was co-operating with police, Sheriff Corpus said.

San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine told the Associated Press news agency that the attacks were committed by a "disgruntled worker".
"We are sickened by today's tragedy in Half Moon Bay," Mr Pine said in a statement. "There are simply too many guns in this country and there has to be a change."

Just hours after the attack, seven were injured and one person was killed in a shooting in Oakland - about 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Half Moon Bay.

Zhao Chunli, seen in an undated driver's licence photo
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Zhao Chunli, seen in an undated driver's licence photo

The Half Moon Bay attack is the 37th mass shooting in just 24 days, according to Gun Violence Archive.

Even as details of the deadly attack in Half Moon Bay were coming in, detectives in the south of the state were still hunting for a motive for the killings in Monterey Park.

There, an elderly Asian immigrant murdered 11 people in a suburban dance hall, before killing himself as police closed in.
How bad is it gonna be this year? Any guess for the final number? Could we beat last year?
 

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This is why we need to return to American ideals of masculinity and the primary role of women as child-bearers, so that we don't run out of people to shoot!
In a sort of way that may be true.

It's probably less painful to lose a child if you've got an extra 2-3 to still love afterwards. A bit like being three up in a football game feels nice and secure, such that even if the opposition pull one back you're comfortable, whereas only being up 1-0 has that perpetual anxiety of an equaliser.

And besides, the more kids die, the more it normalises the experience, so people and society will adapt to it. When you think on it that way, maybe the medieval era wasn't so bad after all.
 

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In a sort of way that may be true.

It's probably less painful to lose a child if you've got an extra 2-3 to still love afterwards. A bit like being three up in a football game feels nice and secure, such that even if the opposition pull one back you're comfortable, whereas only being up 1-0 has that perpetual anxiety of an equaliser.

And besides, the more kids die, the more it normalises the experience, so people and society will adapt to it. When you think on it that way, maybe the medieval era wasn't so bad after all.
Yeah, you also want a high mortality rate due to other things so this doesn't stand out. A plague that people don't take seriously, lots of charlatans promoting quack medicine, and decent medical care being out of reach would help.

Also sending people off to die in pointless wars doesn't seem so bad when they are dying pointlessly at home.
 

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Does it really matter?
The thoughts and prayers, or the sarcasm behind it? Because I could go either way to be honest.

How bad is it gonna be this year? Any guess for the final number? Could we beat last year?
Well with 735 last year, for an average of 2.01/day (2.08 dead and 7.95 wounded per shooting), they are doing poorly in that regard. Only 1.54/day.
 

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Well with 735 last year, for an average of 2.01/day (2.08 dead and 7.95 wounded per shooting), they are doing poorly in that regard. Only 1.54/day.
When did covid restriction ease? The US's normal number of school shootings dropped significantly while schools were closed, couldn't last years number just be a bounce back from that?

Hoping the popularity of these falls away a bit, if for no other reason that the won't make you famous anymore. Columbine was a big deal at the time, got lots of imitators, but nowdays school shootings don't tend to remain in the public consciousness because there's loads of them. I've seen it argued that serial killers aren't fashionable anymore (except on TV), because mass shootings are the quick way to infamy.
 

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When did covid restriction ease? The US's normal number of school shootings dropped significantly while schools were closed, couldn't last years number just be a bounce back from that?
There were more mass shootings in the US in 2020 and 2021, than there were in 2019. So schools being closed did not reduce them.

Hoping the popularity of these falls away a bit, if for no other reason that the won't make you famous anymore. Columbine was a big deal at the time, got lots of imitators, but nowdays school shootings don't tend to remain in the public consciousness because there's loads of them. I've seen it argued that serial killers aren't fashionable anymore (except on TV), because mass shootings are the quick way to infamy.
Meanwhile, here in the UK school shootings are nonexistent. We had one almost thirty years ago, decided that was one to many, and took action to prevent it happening again.
 
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Meanwhile, here in the UK school shootings are nonexistent. We had one almost thirty years ago, decided that was one to many, and took action to prevent it happening again.
Same over here in Australia, which has the most draconian gun laws in Oceania, and we've not be taken over by tyrants yet. Mind you we had tough gun laws before the 90s, they just got tougher after the Port Arthur massacre, but we've got more guns in total now than before that.
 

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Meanwhile, here in the UK school shootings are nonexistent. We had one almost thirty years ago, decided that was one to many, and took action to prevent it happening again.
Same over here in Australia, which has the most draconian gun laws in Oceania, and we've not be taken over by tyrants yet. Mind you we had tough gun laws before the 90s, they just got tougher after the Port Arthur massacre, but we've got more guns in total now than before that.
Wait, you're saying that governments can actually regulate firearms? When did this happen?!
 

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Governments? We demanded it!
We have one political party here that is determined it infringes on peoples individual right to go on mass shootings if we do anything about guns.
 

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Meanwhile, here in the UK school shootings are nonexistent. We had one almost thirty years ago, decided that was one to many, and took action to prevent it happening again.
Undoubtedly, lack of access to firearms makes shootings vastly less likely. Unfortunately, I think it's only a matter of time until someone shoots up a school in the UK.

The simple reason being that people take inspiration, and they have so much access to international media that the high visibility of US school shootings will inevitably inspire Britons to emulate that. Eventually, someone sufficiently maladjusted will get hold of a firearm, and...
 

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Well with 735 last year, for an average of 2.01/day (2.08 dead and 7.95 wounded per shooting), they are doing poorly in that regard. Only 1.54/day.
Which definition of mass hooting is being used for that? Definition is always relevant, for example the Washington Post measured what they dubbed "public mass shootings" which was basically shootings with more than three victims with exceptions meant to exclude gang violence and family annihilators and came up with a bit more than 1300 killed between 2021 (when they stopped updating the page) and 1964.

Presumably they wanted to exclude gang violence because a more naive definition (such as any shooting with 3 or more victims) typically ends up being dominated by gang violence, which because of the demographics of gangs is mostly young black men shooting other young black men with handguns, and young black men shooting each other with handguns is not the image most people writing on the topic of mass shootings want to discuss.