In the course of 48 hours, two gunmen went on shooting rampages at both ends of California that left 18 dead and 10 wounded.
The unrelated massacres at a dance hall in a Los Angeles suburb on Saturday night and a pair of mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay on Monday have dealt a blow to the state, which has some of the nation’s toughest firearm laws and lowest rates of gun deaths.
As communities mourned the dead, some Democratic politicians repeated calls for tougher gun controls on the federal level.
Here are some things to know about the shootings:
Hours after the city of Monterey Park held a large
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