With guns a marker of America’s political-ideological divide, don’t expect deep change for now

MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 23: Monterey Park mayor Henry Lo kneels at a makeshift memorial outside the scene of a deadly mass shooting at a ballroom dance studio on January 23, 2023 in Monterey Park, California. An eleventh person has died and ten more were injured at the studio near a Lunar New Year celebration on Saturday night. A candlelight vigil for the victims will be held in the predominantly Asian American community of Monterey Park tonight. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Monterey Park Mayor Henry Lo kneeling at a makeshift memorial outside the scene of a deadly mass shooting on Jan 23.

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Nirmal Ghosh

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WASHINGTON - In a country where mass shootings regularly make the news, California’s Asian American community has been particularly traumatised by two incidents in just two days.

The

11 dead at the first shooting in Monterey Park,

east of Los Angeles, were all Asian Americans; those at the second,

some 670km north in Half Moon Bay,

have not been identified as at Tuesday morning.

With guns a marker of America’s political-ideological divide, don’t expect deep change for now

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