...despite the military occupation by Republicans of major cities with a Democrat majority. Mass shootings don't show any signs of abating - 380 mass shootings in the US so far this year in schools, shopping centers, bars and office buildings - and Trump refuses to put any restraints on the growing epidemic of gun ownership. He even encourages it by inciting his own white supremacist base to "fight" his made-up windmills (immigrants in particular) after his base of morons has been brainwashed and enabled by the National Rifle Association, a cover for Trump's racist white supremacist neo-Nazi groups.
The deployed National Guard members say they are bored and have nothing to do, other than walk around, pick up trash, and help the elderly cross the street. "Pointless" was the word used by the assassinated Guardswoman Sarah Beckstrom to describe how she soends her day on the streets of DC. The majority of crimes that are being committed across the US are from the pro-Trump US-born white trash communities, but Trump refuses to address this problem, while focused on targeting immigrant communities because he is a died-in-the-wool white racist xenophobe.
The only violence that is spreading like a cancer is the random provocations by Trump's ICE-Gestapo and the freewheeling US CBP of dark-skinned US citizens going about their business. The objective is to pick up a foreign accent, which has become like the Star of David that Nazis used to identify European Jews. Anyone with dark skin, or with an accent, or with "looks" suggestive of the Middle East or Latin America or Asia.... is subjected to harassment and provocation for no reason until they do or say something that is then used against them.
Despite all of this useless demonstration of incompetent force (as always with US military deployments - heavy on bravado and machismo and technical wizardry, but light on meaningful achievements), mass shootings continue and crime is rampant across both Republican and Democrat majority cities. Trump's failure at ensuring safety even in his own backyard in DC is driving him crazier and angrier to take more drastic measures just to stay afloat in his fast dwindling ratings in the polls. He has lost the bulk of independents and some of his own "base" of MAGA morons are beginning to tire of his inanities, his incompetence and self-serving policies.
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3 children among the 4 killed at a California birthday party shooting
Hanna Park
Mon, December 1, 2025
First responders at scene of a mass shooting in Stockton, California on Saturday. - Ethan Swope/AP
A child’s birthday party — a usually joyous event —turned into the site of a mass shooting Saturday night that left three children and one other person dead and 11 wounded, with the suspected shooter still on the run.
The tragedy in Stockton, California, adds to a growing list of American communities whose everyday spaces – schools, shopping centers, bars and office buildings – have experienced gun violence.
Children and adults were among those shot, according to Heather Brent, a spokesperson for the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office. Officials did not immediately release the conditions of those taken to area hospitals.
“Early indications suggest this may have been a targeted incident,” Brent said at a news conference. “This is a very active and ongoing investigation, and information remains limited,” she said.
Those killed were ages 8, 9, 14 and 21, Brent said Sunday. Authorities have not released the names of the victims.
Sheriff Patrick Withrow made a plea to the community Sunday to continue providing information to his office about the shooting, no matter how small it may be.
“I am confident in our team and with the work that we have done so far that we will find these animals that did this and bring them justice, but we still need the public’s help.” Withrow said.
The shooting occurred just before 6 p.m. in the northern part of the city, according to the sheriff’s office. The banquet hall, which shares a parking lot with several businesses, including a Dairy Queen, was hosting a family celebration that investigators were told was a birthday party for a young child with 100 to 150 people in attendance, Brent said. Stockton is about 40 miles south of Sacramento.
The suspected shooter fled and remains at large, Brent said. Officials are urging the public for help with information as detectives work to determine a possible motive. “Investigators are exploring all possibilities,” Brent said.
“We’re confident that this was not a random act,” Withrow said Sunday. “We’re not gonna say whether it’s gang related or not, until we have all the facts in front of us.”
Withrow said he drove more than eight hours and, had to, “put down my grandbabies to come hunt down these animals who took somebody else’s babies away from them.”
“My heart goes out to the families of those killed, the injured, and the survivors,” said former Rep. Gabby Giffords, herself a survivor of gun violence and founder of the gun violence prevention organization GIFFORDS.
“While we await for more information on the shooting, what is painfully obvious is that we need our federal leaders to act to stop gun violence.”
First responders close off a parking lot near the scene of a mass shooting Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in Stockton, Calif. - Ethan Swope/AP
There have been at least 380 mass shootings in the US so far this year – defined as when at least four people are shot, not including the shooter – according to the Gun Violence Archive.
In January, a shooting at Martin’s Super Market in Elkhart, Indiana, left two people dead and two police officers injured. In August, a man walked into the lobby of a Park Avenue skyscraper in New York City, killed a police officer, then opened fire on other innocent strangers. The next month in Colorado, a shooting at Evergreen High School left two students critically wounded after a fellow student allegedly opened fire during their third week of classes.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been briefed on the shooting, according to his office.
“Our hearts break for their families and the entire Stockton community,” Newsom said in a post on X Sunday.
Stockton Mayor Christina Fugazi said in a statement that the governor has “offered the full support of the state of California” to assist the community.
“Tonight our city is facing a heartbreaking and painful situation,” Fugazi wrote. “Please keep the victims, their loved ones, and our first responders in your prayers.”
This story has been updated with additional details.
CNN’s Michelle Watson and Chris Boyette contributed to this report.
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