{"id":577119,"date":"2023-01-25T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=577119"},"modified":"2023-02-04T23:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T23:25:49","slug":"democrats-call-for-federal-gun-laws-after-california-mass-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/democrats-call-for-federal-gun-laws-after-california-mass-shootings","title":{"rendered":"Democrats call for federal gun laws after California mass shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Nexstar) &#8211; In 2022, there were nearly 650 mass shootings in the U.S. and the country has already had dozens so far in 2023. Now, the stalemate over federal gun control seems to have no solution in sight despite the violence. &#8220;There have been 39 mass murders since January first,&#8221; Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) said. One of those shootings happened on Saturday in Monterey Park, California and took the lives of 11 people in Congresswoman Chu&#8217;s district. Congressman Ro Khanna&#8217;s district is just outside Half Moon Bay, California where another shooting spree took place on Monday and left at least seven victims dead. &#8220;There&#8217;s no silver bullet, we have to start, of course, by saying these weapons of war don&#8217;t belong on our streets,&#8221; Rep. Khanna (D-CA) said. But fellow Californian, Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, says stricter gun laws are not the answer. &#8220;California has the strictest gun laws there are. And apparently that did not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, there were nearly 650 mass shootings in the U.S. and the country has already had dozens in 2023. Now, the stalemate over federal gun control seems to have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}