{"id":893278,"date":"2026-03-21T03:20:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/gun-control-fail-7-shot-2-fatally-in-gavin-newsoms-california\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:20:02","slug":"gun-control-fail-7-shot-2-fatally-in-gavin-newsoms-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/gun-control-fail-7-shot-2-fatally-in-gavin-newsoms-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control Fail: 7 Shot, 2 Fatally, in Gavin Newsom&#8217;s California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>California has more gun control than any state in the Union yet seven people were shot, two of them fatally, Sunday in San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>KRON 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/5-injured-in-downtown-san-jose-shooting-sunday-night\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0the two shooting fatalities occurred at 2:20 a.m. Sunday \u201cin the 100 block of Paseo de San Antonio.\u201d NBC Bay Area <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/deadly-shooting-downtown-san-jose\/4030051\/\">noted<\/a> that two men where shot and died at the scene, despite life-saving efforts.<\/p>\n<p>KQED <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12072869\/7-people-shot-in-downtown-san-jose-on-super-bowl-sunday\">pointed out<\/a>\u00a0a suspect was arrested in connection with the fatal shootings.<\/p>\n<p>Later Sunday, just before 10:50 p.m., officers responded \u201cto the area of North Market Street and West Santa Clara Street\u201d where there had been an altercation then a shooting. A total of five shooting victims were located, all of whom are expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>California gun controls include a red flag law, universal background checks, gun registration, an \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban, a \u201chigh capacity\u201d magazine ban, a concealed carry permit requirement, a limit on the number of guns a law-abiding citizen can buy each month, a 10-day waiting period on gun purchases, a ban on campus carry for self-defense, a ban on K-12 teachers being armed for classroom defense, and numerous other controls.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>RELATED:\u00a0Zeldin \u2014 People Are \u201cDone\u201d with California Because of \u201cIncompetent\u201d Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\"><\/figure>\n<p>None of California\u2019s controls prevented the San Jose shootings.<\/p>\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News\u00a0and the writer\/curator of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. 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KRON 4 reported\u00a0the two shooting fatalities occurred at 2:20 a.m. Sunday \u201cin the 100 block of Paseo de San Antonio.\u201d NBC Bay Area noted that two men where shot and died<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":893279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4250,3214],"tags":[8409,12645],"class_list":{"0":"post-893278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-control","8":"category-fatally","9":"tag-control","10":"tag-fatally"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}