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Residents of two separate communities in California are reeling from two separate mass shootings that happened in three days apart from each other and have claimed 18 lives and injured 10 people.
Motives behind both attacks are still under investigation, but Asian-American communities impacted by the latest round of gun violence are on edge, as it comes after a trend of rising anti-Asian hate crimes across the country.
The latest tragedies have triggered new debates around self-defense for individuals, as well as a federal gun safety reform.
CGTN's Ediz Tiyansan reports.
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