Eight people were shot, two of them fatally, in heavily gun-controlled Los Angeles, California, Monday around 1:00 a.m.
KTLA reported that the incident occurred in an area where there was an “afterparty” following a festival called, “Way After You Go Hard – Afterparty Day 2.”
Another party had also been held in the area, which police broke up around 11:00 p.m.
ABC 7 noted that a 29-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman were killed in the shooting. Of the six who were injured, two of them are in critical condition.
California leads the nation in Second Amendment restrictions, with Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety ranking the Golden State number one for gun control.
The controls include an “assault weapons” ban, “high capacity” magazine ban, universal background checks, firearm registration requirements, a 10-day waiting period on gun purchases, a limit on the number of guns a law-abiding citizen can buy each month, a ban on campus carry for self-defense, a ban on K-12 teachers being armed for classroom defense, and a ban on licensed concealed carry in so-called sensitive places, among many other prohibitions.
Despite all these gun laws, California also led the nation in “active shooter incidents” in 2021 and 2023.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on X: @awrhawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
