Behind the Badge
The specter of ghost guns in California
0Tustin, Aug. 17: A woman reports a carjacking by a man wielding a rifle. Corona, July 26: Two teenagers are fatally shot in a movie theater by a man claiming voices in his head prompted him. San Diego, April 22: A man is suspected of killing one person, wounding four others in seemingly random shootings downtown. Compton, 2020: Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies are ambushed in a shooting. Santa Clarita, 2019: A 16-year-old allegedly shoots five classmates, two fatally. What links these cases, beyond simply adding to the bloated roster of gun crimes and violence in Southern California? In…
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