The smell of perfumed smoke turned my head Tuesday morning outside the Monterey Park dance club where 11 people were gunned down Saturday night. A man named Scott, seated in a wheelchair, was lighting incense sticks to honor the dead.
"What else can we do?" asked Scott, 57, who requested that I not use his last name. He told me he's Chinese, he was born in Vietnam, and he was disabled years ago by a stroke.
Even before all the wreaths were laid in Monterey Park, along with a sign that says "Ban semi-automatic rifles," the same question was being asked in Half Moon Bay, where seven people were gunned down. Few details about that shooter were immediately available.
