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After a tragic workplace mass shooting, one Bay Area city got tougher on guns. Did it work?

In response to mass shootings in Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park, as well as in Goshen (six dead) and Oakland (one dead, seven injured), state lawmakers this month introduced a bill with San Jose serving as inspiration. SB 8, from state Sens. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, and Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, would require gun owners to purchase liability insurance. If enacted, the bill would make California the first state in the nation to adopt such legislation.

 

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