After three mass shootings in California in recent days have left at least 18 people dead, President Joe Biden on Jan. 24 urged Congress to pass gun control legislation.
In Half Moon Bay, a coastal community south of San Francisco, seven people were killed in two related shootings on Jan. 23, according to police reports.
That evening, one person was killed and at least seven were injured during a shooting in Oakland.
Two days earlier, in the southern California city of Monterey Park, a gunman opened fire in a dance studio, killing 11 and wounding at least 10 more during a Lunar New Year celebration in the predominately Asian community east of downtown Los Angeles….