More massacres than days past. The year 2023 began in the most violent way in the United States, where hour after hour of mass shootings continue to ensue, leaving a trail of corpses, horror and fear among Americans. And useless are the warnings of President Joe Biden, who for the umpteenth time has berated Congress by urging lawmakers and senators to impose a definitive gun crackdown and ban on assault rifles. California is the state devastated the most by mass shootings this terrible January: three in less than three 72 hours. While a motive is still being sought for the Monterey Park massacre in which a 72-year-old man shot and killed 11 people while celebrating Chinese New Year in a ballroom, another elderly killer of Asian descent massacred seven men on a farm of mushrooms are grown in Half Bay Moon, in San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco, and at another location a few miles away. There is also a seriously injured woman. Zhao Chunli, 66, was stopped and disarmed by police officers in a parking lot and offered no resistance. Unknown to police, she had legally acquired the weapon used in the massacre, a semi-automatic pistol. Again, as in Monterey Park, there is no motive. Hypotheses included that the killer had worked on the farm and was a fellow farmer, mostly Chinese and Hispanic, whom he killed. An incredible and violent act that took place before the eyes of the children who live with their families on the farm and who had just finished school. A few hours after the farm massacre in Oakland, another California city, a man opened fire outside a gas station, killing one person and injuring seven others, and then fled. Another hitman was also on the run, always outside a gas station but in Yakima, Washington State, killing at least three people before stealing a gray Chrysler and running away. Police say he is “a dangerous person and a danger to the community.” Yet another shooting, another in recent days, at a school that helps young people living in underprivileged conditions in Des Moines, Iowa: two students were killed and police arrested three people who tried to board a fleeing cars, saying it was not an arbitrary act but a “deliberate act”. The institute where the massacre took place, attended by boys between the ages of 9 and 18, was founded by Will Holmes, the rapper named Will Keeps, who came to Des Moines from Chicago 20 years ago, where he lived in a world of the gangs lived before he found support and help out in music. A record of atrocities and deaths—there have already been 39 mass shootings this year, the first in January in American history—that Biden cracked down on and made fighting guns a priority of his presidency. “Decisive action is required. I again urge Congress to act quickly and pass the Assault Weapons Ban,” thundered the President. While California Governor Democrat Gavin Newsom has attacked the Second Amendment guaranteeing the right to bear arms, calling it a “suicide covenant.” While the motive has not yet been identified, inside the trailer where the Monterey Bay killer lived, police found “hundreds of ammunition,” a .308 caliber rifle, electronic equipment and items that led investigators to believe “the silencer made “For his weapons. For Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna, “It’s a complex investigation, there are a lot of things we still don’t know.”
