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"content": "\u003cp>MESQUITE, Nevada — Stephen Paddock lived in a tidy Nevada retirement community where the amenities include golf, tennis and bocce. He owned rental properties, held a private pilot’s license and liked to travel to Las Vegas to play high-stakes video poker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nothing in his background suggests why he would have been on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino with at least 10 guns on Sunday night, raining an unparalleled slaughter upon an outdoor country music festival below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t even make something up,” his bewildered brother, Eric Paddock, told reporters Monday. “There’s just nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/914859562699776002\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 58 people were killed and more than 500 wounded in Paddock’s attack on the Route 91 Harvest Festival, where country music star Jason Aldean was performing for more than 22,000 fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/02/more-than-50-killed-in-las-vegas-sniper-attack/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 64-year-old gunman killed himself in the hotel room before authorities arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”4h3QoPH71eiMqFAwF84c28AMF6p24Ich”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Islamic State group claimed responsibility, without offering evidence, but Aaron Rouse, the FBI agent in charge in Las Vegas, said investigators saw no connection to international terrorism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about a potential motive, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said he could not “get into the mind of a psychopath at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public records offered no hint of financial distress or criminal history, and Eric Paddock, who spoke with reporters outside his home near Orlando, Florida, said he did not know of any religious or political affiliation his brother had. Stephen Paddock had not served in the military and was “not an avid gun guy at all,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where the hell did he get automatic weapons?” Eric Paddock said. “He’s a guy who lived in a house in Mesquite and drove down and gambled in Las Vegas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Eric Paddock also told The Associated Press that he had not talked to his brother in six months and last heard from him in a text message sent after Hurricane Irma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”B6ONtUYCyfe1QqjYplXfoqiGiFJvG1Mg”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like, ‘You OK?’ ‘Yeah.’ ” Eric Paddock recalled. “We talked when we had something to talk about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Paddock also recalled another recent text showing “a picture that he won $40,000 on a slot machine. But that’s the way he played.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavily armed police searched Paddock’s home in Mesquite, near the Arizona border about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, looking for clues Monday. Paddock lived there with his 62-year-old girlfriend, who authorities said was out of the country when the shooting happened. Eric Paddock described her as kindly and said she sometimes sent cookies to his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police also searched a two-bedroom home that Paddock owned in a retirement community in Reno, 500 miles from Mesquite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/MandalayBayWindow-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"A smashed window on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas marks the point from which Stephen Paddock slaughtered at least 58 people attending a country music festival on Sunday night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/MandalayBayWindow-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/MandalayBayWindow-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/MandalayBayWindow-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/MandalayBayWindow.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/MandalayBayWindow-1180x842.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/MandalayBayWindow-960x685.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/MandalayBayWindow-240x171.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/MandalayBayWindow-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/MandalayBayWindow-520x371.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A smashed window on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas marks the point from which Stephen Paddock slaughtered at least 58 people attending a country music festival on Sunday night. \u003ccite>(MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Stephen Paddock appeared to have no criminal history, his father was a notorious bank robber, Eric Paddock confirmed to the Orlando Sentinel. Benjamin Hoskins Paddock tried to run down an FBI agent with his car in Las Vegas in 1960 and wound up on the agency’s most wanted list after escaping from a federal prison in Texas in 1968, when Stephen Paddock was a teen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oldest of four children, Paddock was 7 when his father was arrested for the robberies. A neighbor, Eva Price, took him swimming while FBI agents searched the family home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told the Tucson Citizen at the time: “We’re trying to keep Steve from knowing his father is held as a bank robber. I hardly know the family, but Steve is a nice boy. It’s a terrible thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FBI poster issued after the escape said Benjamin Hoskins Paddock had been “diagnosed as psychopathic” and should be considered “armed and very dangerous.” He’d been serving a 20-year sentence for a string of bank robberies in Phoenix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BrendanKeefe/status/914874924409540608\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elder Paddock remained on the lam for nearly a decade, living under an assumed name in Oregon. Investigators found him in 1978 after he attracted publicity for opening the state’s first licensed bingo parlor. He died in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephen Paddock bought his one-story, three-bedroom home in a newly built Mesquite subdivision for $369,000, in 2015, property records show. Past court filings and recorded deeds in California and Texas suggest he co-owned rental property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He previously lived in another Mesquite — the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, Texas — from 2004 to 2012, according to Mesquite, Texas, police Lt. Brian Parrish. Paddock owned at least three separate rental properties, Parrish said, and there was no indication the police department had any contact with him over that time, Parrish said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has been divorced at least twice, including marriages that ended in 1980 and 1990. One of the ex-wives lives in Southern California, where a large gathering of reporters congregated in her neighborhood. Los Angeles police Sgt. Cort Bishop said she did not want to speak with journalists. He relayed that the two had not been in contact for a long time and did not have children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to federal aviation records, Paddock was issued a private pilot’s license in November 2003. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said he obtained three-day, nonresident fishing licenses in 2009 and 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Paddock sued the Cosmopolitan Hotel & Resorts in Nevada, saying he slipped and fell on a wet floor there. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed by a judge and settled by arbitration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by telephone, Paddock’s lawyer at the time, Jared R. Richards, said he could not comment because of client confidentiality concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paddock kept a vacation home in Heritage Isle, a gated retirement community in Viera, Florida, from 2013 to 2015, said Don Judy, his neighbor there. Judy said gambling, online and in person, was how Paddock claimed to make his living. One time, he said, Paddock showed Judy’s wife his laptop as evidence that he had won $20,000 in an online game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never gave me any indication that he was strapped for money or needing money,” Judy said. “He said he was a gambler by trade, a speculator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy described Paddock as “a real nice guy” who typically dressed in a polo shirt and shorts and didn’t stand out among other part-time residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The second time I met him, he pulled out his keys and he gave me his house key,” Judy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Paddock was away, Judy said, he would bring in his mail and the newspaper and walk through the house to make sure the air conditioning was working and that there wasn’t any flood damage after storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would call me every so often to ask if everything was OK with the house. 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"content": "\u003cp>After a gunman attacked concertgoers late Sunday in Las Vegas, killing dozens of people and wounding hundreds of others, KQED collected statements made by California’s members of Congress reacting to the worst shooting in the nation’s modern history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We gathered comments made via social media, as well as from press releases sent out by each member’s office. We included links to their Twitter and Facebook pages where you can see some of their statements, plus additional comments they’ve made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll reach out to the lawmakers who haven’t yet publicly commented about the shooting to get their reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I’m devastated this morning over the massacre in Las Vegas. My prayers are with the victims and their families. Thank you to the courageous first responders and law enforcement officers at the scene and the hospitals that are caring for so many wounded.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca style=\"line-height: inherit;font-size: 19px;font-style: italic\" href=\"https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein\">Twitter\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: inherit;color: #767676;font-size: 19px;font-style: italic\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca style=\"line-height: inherit;font-size: 19px;font-style: italic\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SenatorFeinstein/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sen. Kamala Harris\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Our hearts break for the victims and their families and our thoughts are with those wounded, after the horrific Las Vegas shooting to curb it.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca style=\"line-height: inherit\" href=\"https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris\">Twitter\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: inherit\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca style=\"line-height: inherit\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KamalaHarris/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale, District 1)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepLaMalfa\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepLaMalfa/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael, District 2)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Grim win for soulless gun industry. Gun sales will now soar — from those afraid, & surely from a few who would imitate. $$ all the same. Massive tragedy in Vegas with high power weaponry. More blood on hands of heartless NRA and soulless gun industry. When will it be enough? I hope President Nero enjoyed his golf weekend.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepHuffman\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepHuffman/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>John Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove, District 3)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I am at a loss for words over Las Vegas. My heart is with the victims and their families.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepGaramendi\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/repgaramendi/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tom McClintock (R-Elk Grove, District 4)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepMcClintock\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jointom/?hc_ref=SEARCH\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena, District 5)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My thoughts and prayers are w/ the people of Las Vegas & the victims of this tragedy. Grateful to first responders for their bravery. Enough is enough. Congress should come together and establish a Select Committee to end gun violence.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepThompson\"> Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepMikeThompson/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento, District 6)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Our entire nation grieves with the people of #LasVegas. My heart goes out to the victims, their families, and all of those experiencing unimaginable pain and loss in the wake of this horrific act of violence. We pray for the recovery of those who were injured and send them our strength. We must come together and take action to put an end to these senseless acts of gun violence in our country.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DorisMatsui\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/doris.matsui/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ami Bera (D-Elk Grove, District 7)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life in Las Vegas. No community should have to fear going to the movies, a concert, or dropping their child off at school. We all mourn the loss of life in Las Vegas. Please keep the families impacted in your thoughts and prayers.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBera\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepAmiBera/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley, District 8)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Deeply saddened by the events unfolding in Las Vegas. There’s no excuse for this tragic loss of life.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepPaulCook\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepPaulCook/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jerry McNerney (D-Stockton, District 9)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Today, we are once again touched by a senseless and tragic act of violence. My heart goes out to the people of Las Vegas, the victims of this tragedy and to their families.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepMcNerney\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jerrymcnerney/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jeff Denham (R-Atwater, District 10)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Words cannot express how devastating this is for the victims and their families, who are now living a nightmare because of one person’s evil act. Sonia and I are praying for everyone affected – including the survivors who witnessed these horrors, many of whom selflessly helped the injured – and my thanks go out to our brave first responders who acted not knowing what they may face.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJeffDenham\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJeffDenham\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord, District 11)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Our hearts and prayers are with all of the victims and families affected by the horrific tragedy in Las Vegas.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepDeSaulnier\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepMarkDeSaulnier/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco, District 12)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Horrified and heartbroken by the awful tragedy in\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegas?src=hash\"> #LasVegas\u003c/a> last night. Praying for those lost, wounded & waiting for news from loved ones. We will never waver in our love and support for the people of\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegas?src=hash\"> #LasVegas\u003c/a> & the families of the victims of this attack. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan\">@SpeakerRyan\u003c/a>, it’s time for action. Congress must create an Select Committee on Gun Violence.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NancyPelosi\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pelosiforcongress/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Barbara Lee (D-Oakland, District 13)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My heart breaks for Las Vegas. My thoughts & prayers are with the victims, their families & loved ones during this unimaginable tragedy.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BarbaraLeeforCongress/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jackie Speier (D-Peninsula, District 14)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“No more moments of silence – the best way to honor the\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegasShooting?src=hash\"> #LasVegasShooting\u003c/a> victims is a moment of action to prevent further senseless deaths. The tragedy in\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegas?src=hash\"> #LasVegas\u003c/a> shows the danger of gun manufacturers’/GOP push 4\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/suppressors?src=hash\"> #suppressors\u003c/a>. How many more would have perished with less sound?”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepSpeier\">Twitter\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JackieSpeier/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin, District 15)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Heartbreaking news out of\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegas?src=hash\"> #LasVegas\u003c/a> this morning. My thoughts are w/ victims of this horrific act of violence & many brave first responders. My heart beats for every victim. This does not have to be us. We are not helpless. We can be louder than these bullets. Saying “we’ll talk about it later” is what you tell a child when you don’t intend to. Almost 60 Americans were just killed – \u003ca class=\"twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav\" href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/TalkAboutItNow?src=hash\">\u003cs>#\u003c/s>\u003cb>TalkAboutItNow\u003c/b>\u003c/a>”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongressmanEricSwalwell/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jim Costa (D-Fresno, District 16)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJimCosta\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJimCosta/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ro Khanna (D-Fremont, District 17)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My heart breaks for the victims of this morning’s horrific attack in Las Vegas and their families. We must end this senseless violence.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RoKhannaUSA\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepRoKhanna/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Anna Eshoo (D-Silicon Valley, District 18)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My prayers are with the families who lost their loved ones and for all those injured in Las Vegas.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepAnnaEshoo\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepAnnaEshoo/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose, District 19)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepZoeLofgren\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/zoelofgren/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley, District 20)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My prayers are with the victims, and their families, of the tragic shooting in Las Vegas.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepJimmyPanetta\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJimmyPanetta/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>David Valadao (R-Hanford, District 21)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Praying for every victim affected by this horrific tragedy in Las Vegas and their loved ones.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepDavidValadao\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongressmanDavidValadao/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Devin Nunes (R-Tulare, District 22)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@Rep_DevinNunes\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Congressman-Devin-Nunes-376470350795/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield, District 23)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Such a senseless tragedy in Las Vegas. This horrific act has our nation praying for the victims and their families. May God bless us all. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are so thankful for the bravery of the first responders and citizens who put themselves in danger to care for and protect others. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Communities across America will feel the pain of this violence personally—including my home town of Bakersfield.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@GOPLeader\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongressmanKevinMcCarthy/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara, District 24)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Horrified by reports from #LasVegas that yet another mass shooting has claimed innocent lives. My thoughts are w/ victims & their loved ones. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you to our first responders & medical teams, who bravely put themselves in harm’s way to save lives in the wake of #LasVegas tragedy. While we grieve, we must also realize that words aren’t enough. Our nation is facing a gun violence epidemic & Congress must take action.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepCarbajal\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CarbajalForCongress/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Steve Knight (R-Santa Clarita, District 25)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“RT: @KHTSRadio: Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by this tragedy. #prayforvegas #vegas #lasvegas #prayersforvegas. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/khtsradio/status/914880027551862785\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">https://twitter.com/khtsradio/status/914880027551862785\u003c/span>\u003c/a>”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@SteveKnight25\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepresentativeSteveKnight/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village, District 26)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@JuliaBrownley26\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJuliaBrownley/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park, District 27)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Too much pain in our country today. Our whole country stands with the survivors and families of those hurt and killed in Las Vegas. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we mourn yet another historic mass shooting in our country, our thoughts must be of solutions, our prayers for the courage to enact them. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among the 200+ victims in last night’s shooting were 2 @LASDHQ [LA County Sheriff] off-duty personnel. They are in our thoughts for a quick & full recovery.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepJudyChu\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJudyChu/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Adam Schiff (D-Burbank, District 28)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Devastating news from Las Vegas overnight. My heart is with the victims and their families. Is there no end to this terrible madness?”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepAdamSchiff\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepAdamSchiff/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tony Cardenas (D-San Fernando Valley, District 29)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My heart aches for the families that will never be whole again & victims of this shooting. No amount of thoughts & prayers are enough.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepCardenas\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/repcardenas/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks, District 30)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the tragic shooting in Las Vegas. Look forward to a full investigation to give us answers.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepPeteAguilar\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/reppeteaguilar/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pete Aguilar (D-San Bernardino, District 31)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely heartbroken to wake up to the news out of Las Vegas. My thoughts are with the victims and their families today.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepPeteAguilar\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/reppeteaguilar/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Grace Napolitano (D-El Monte, District 32)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“The carnage that occurred breaks our hearts and confounds our minds. Additional counseling and supportive mental health services should be made available for all concert-goers, first responders, and the entire Las Vegas community. While we do not yet know all of the details, including the gunmen’s motive, we refuse to accept gun violence. Together we must act boldly to stop this epidemic and prevent tragedies. Our hearts remain with the city of Las Vegas and all Nevadans today.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@gracenapolitano\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepGraceNapolitano/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ted Lieu (D-Torrance, District 33)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Heartbroken by the tragedy in #LasVegas last night. Our thoughts & prayers are w/ the people of Nevada & those affected. #LasVegasShooting”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@tedlieu\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepTedLieu/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles, District 34)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Stunned to hear this horrible news shortly after landing in Washington, D.C. my thoughts & prayers are with the victims & the injured.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJimmyGomez\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJimmyGomez/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Norma Torres (D-Pomona, District 35)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“The people of Las Vegas are in my prayers this morning. Thank you to the first responders. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In September, I opposed the SHARE Act, a @GOP bill that will make it easier for people to buy gun silencers. It has always been unconscionable that @GOP wants to make it easier for people to buy gun silencers – today more so than ever. As a former 911 dispatcher, I know that identifying the sound & location of gunfire can be the difference b/n life & death.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@NormaJTorres\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepNormaTorres/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Desert, District 36)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Gave my family an extra hug today and praying for anyone who lost a loved one or was injured by the horrific events in Las Vegas last night. We must come together to address the senseless gun violence plaguing our nation, because if we do nothing, nothing will change.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@CongressmanRuiz\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongressmanRaulRuizMD/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles, District 37)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“As we wake up to horrific and tragic news out of Las Vegas, our thoughts are with the hundreds harmed and their families.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepKarenBass\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepKarenBass/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Linda Sanchez (D-Orange, District 38)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My thoughts and prayers are with all those killed and wounded in #LasVegas shooting. This is an unimaginable heinous act of violence.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepLindaSanchez\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongresswomanLindaSanchez/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ed Royce (R-Fullerton, District 39)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“In the face of horrific tragedy, Americans everywhere stand united with the victims and first responders in Las Vegas.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepEdRoyce\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/EdRoyce/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Los Angeles, District 40)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Sickened and heartbroken by the news of another terrible gun massacre, this time in Las Vegas. Sending my prayers to the victims, their loved ones, and the first responders.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepRoybalAllard\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepRoybalAllard/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mark Takano (D-Riverside, District 41)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Heartbroken over the tragedy in Las Vegas. I’m thinking about the victims and their loved ones, and about how we can make this stop.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepMarkTakano\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepMarkTakano/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ken Calvert (R-Corona, District 42)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My deepest condolences go out to the victims’ families and friends and to those injured in Las Vegas. My full statement [from screen grab]: “My deepest condolences go out to the victims’ families and friends and to those injured. I commend the rapid reaction from first responders and the medical staff who are currently treating those who were hurt. There are no words to express the sorrow at such a large number of lives lost. It defies comprehension. My prayers are with all those impacted.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KenCalvert\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepKenCalvert/?ref=br_rs\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Maxine Waters (D-Inglewood, District 43)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MaxineWaters\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MaxineWaters/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nanette Barragan (D-San Pedro, District 44)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Waking up to horrific news out of Las Vegas. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the Mandalay Bay shooting.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarragan\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongresswomanBarragan/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mimi Walters (R-Laguna Niguel, District 45)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Horrified & deeply saddened by the deadly shooting in Las Vegas. My heart & prayers are with the victims, their loved ones & all affected.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepMimiWalters\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepMimiWalters/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana, District 46)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“This is a national tragedy. My thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families. Orange County stands ready to offer any assistance we can.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepLouCorrea\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepLouCorrea/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach, District 47)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Devastated by the despicable shooting in #LasVegas last night. My heart goes out to all those affected.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepLowenthal\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepLowenthal/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa, District 48)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DanaRohrabacher\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepRohrabacher/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Darrell Issa (R-Vista, District 49)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Horrific news out of Las Vegas this morning. Praying for victims, their families, first responders and all those affected. We are with you.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DarrellIssa\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongressmanIssa/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Duncan D. Hunter (R-Lakeside, District 50)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Retweeted Paul Ryan: “America woke up to heartbreaking news from Las Vegas. We stand united in our shock, our condolences, & our prayers. spkrryan.us/2ySnJZG”\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Rep_Hunter\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DuncanHunter/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Juan Vargas (D-San Diego, District 51)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Devastated by the loss of innocent lives in Las Vegas. I’m praying for the victims and those injured by this senseless act of violence.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJuanVargas\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJuanVargas/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Scott Peters (D-La Jolla, District 52)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Horrified to wake up to the news out of #LasVegas. Praying for the victims of this senseless violence, their families and all those injured. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But prayers alone are not enough. I also pray that this act of domestic terror will spur this Congress to act. #Enough”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@ScottPetersSD\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepScottPeters/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Susan Davis (D-San Diego, District 53)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Devastated by the news coming from Las Vegas as families and the nation have to endure yet another senseless and tragic shooting. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We need to turn moments of silence into moments of action. #LasVegas”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepSusanDavis\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepSusanDavis/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Miranda Leitsinger, Bert Johnson, Carly Severn and Ashley Urdang contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After a gunman attacked concertgoers late Sunday in Las Vegas, killing dozens of people and wounding hundreds of others, KQED collected statements made by California’s members of Congress reacting to the worst shooting in the nation’s modern history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We gathered comments made via social media, as well as from press releases sent out by each member’s office. We included links to their Twitter and Facebook pages where you can see some of their statements, plus additional comments they’ve made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll reach out to the lawmakers who haven’t yet publicly commented about the shooting to get their reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I’m devastated this morning over the massacre in Las Vegas. My prayers are with the victims and their families. Thank you to the courageous first responders and law enforcement officers at the scene and the hospitals that are caring for so many wounded.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca style=\"line-height: inherit;font-size: 19px;font-style: italic\" href=\"https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein\">Twitter\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: inherit;color: #767676;font-size: 19px;font-style: italic\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca style=\"line-height: inherit;font-size: 19px;font-style: italic\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SenatorFeinstein/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sen. Kamala Harris\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Our hearts break for the victims and their families and our thoughts are with those wounded, after the horrific Las Vegas shooting to curb it.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca style=\"line-height: inherit\" href=\"https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris\">Twitter\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: inherit\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca style=\"line-height: inherit\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KamalaHarris/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale, District 1)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepLaMalfa\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepLaMalfa/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael, District 2)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Grim win for soulless gun industry. Gun sales will now soar — from those afraid, & surely from a few who would imitate. $$ all the same. Massive tragedy in Vegas with high power weaponry. More blood on hands of heartless NRA and soulless gun industry. When will it be enough? I hope President Nero enjoyed his golf weekend.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepHuffman\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepHuffman/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>John Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove, District 3)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I am at a loss for words over Las Vegas. My heart is with the victims and their families.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepGaramendi\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/repgaramendi/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tom McClintock (R-Elk Grove, District 4)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepMcClintock\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jointom/?hc_ref=SEARCH\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena, District 5)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My thoughts and prayers are w/ the people of Las Vegas & the victims of this tragedy. Grateful to first responders for their bravery. Enough is enough. Congress should come together and establish a Select Committee to end gun violence.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepThompson\"> Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepMikeThompson/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento, District 6)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Our entire nation grieves with the people of #LasVegas. My heart goes out to the victims, their families, and all of those experiencing unimaginable pain and loss in the wake of this horrific act of violence. We pray for the recovery of those who were injured and send them our strength. We must come together and take action to put an end to these senseless acts of gun violence in our country.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DorisMatsui\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/doris.matsui/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ami Bera (D-Elk Grove, District 7)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life in Las Vegas. No community should have to fear going to the movies, a concert, or dropping their child off at school. We all mourn the loss of life in Las Vegas. Please keep the families impacted in your thoughts and prayers.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBera\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepAmiBera/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley, District 8)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Deeply saddened by the events unfolding in Las Vegas. There’s no excuse for this tragic loss of life.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepPaulCook\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepPaulCook/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jerry McNerney (D-Stockton, District 9)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Today, we are once again touched by a senseless and tragic act of violence. My heart goes out to the people of Las Vegas, the victims of this tragedy and to their families.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepMcNerney\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jerrymcnerney/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jeff Denham (R-Atwater, District 10)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Words cannot express how devastating this is for the victims and their families, who are now living a nightmare because of one person’s evil act. Sonia and I are praying for everyone affected – including the survivors who witnessed these horrors, many of whom selflessly helped the injured – and my thanks go out to our brave first responders who acted not knowing what they may face.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJeffDenham\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJeffDenham\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord, District 11)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Our hearts and prayers are with all of the victims and families affected by the horrific tragedy in Las Vegas.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepDeSaulnier\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepMarkDeSaulnier/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco, District 12)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Horrified and heartbroken by the awful tragedy in\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegas?src=hash\"> #LasVegas\u003c/a> last night. Praying for those lost, wounded & waiting for news from loved ones. We will never waver in our love and support for the people of\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegas?src=hash\"> #LasVegas\u003c/a> & the families of the victims of this attack. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan\">@SpeakerRyan\u003c/a>, it’s time for action. Congress must create an Select Committee on Gun Violence.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NancyPelosi\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pelosiforcongress/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Barbara Lee (D-Oakland, District 13)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My heart breaks for Las Vegas. My thoughts & prayers are with the victims, their families & loved ones during this unimaginable tragedy.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BarbaraLeeforCongress/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jackie Speier (D-Peninsula, District 14)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“No more moments of silence – the best way to honor the\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegasShooting?src=hash\"> #LasVegasShooting\u003c/a> victims is a moment of action to prevent further senseless deaths. The tragedy in\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegas?src=hash\"> #LasVegas\u003c/a> shows the danger of gun manufacturers’/GOP push 4\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/suppressors?src=hash\"> #suppressors\u003c/a>. How many more would have perished with less sound?”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepSpeier\">Twitter\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JackieSpeier/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin, District 15)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Heartbreaking news out of\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/LasVegas?src=hash\"> #LasVegas\u003c/a> this morning. My thoughts are w/ victims of this horrific act of violence & many brave first responders. My heart beats for every victim. This does not have to be us. We are not helpless. We can be louder than these bullets. Saying “we’ll talk about it later” is what you tell a child when you don’t intend to. Almost 60 Americans were just killed – \u003ca class=\"twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav\" href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/TalkAboutItNow?src=hash\">\u003cs>#\u003c/s>\u003cb>TalkAboutItNow\u003c/b>\u003c/a>”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongressmanEricSwalwell/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jim Costa (D-Fresno, District 16)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJimCosta\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJimCosta/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ro Khanna (D-Fremont, District 17)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My heart breaks for the victims of this morning’s horrific attack in Las Vegas and their families. We must end this senseless violence.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RoKhannaUSA\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepRoKhanna/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Anna Eshoo (D-Silicon Valley, District 18)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My prayers are with the families who lost their loved ones and for all those injured in Las Vegas.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepAnnaEshoo\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepAnnaEshoo/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose, District 19)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepZoeLofgren\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/zoelofgren/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley, District 20)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My prayers are with the victims, and their families, of the tragic shooting in Las Vegas.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepJimmyPanetta\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJimmyPanetta/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>David Valadao (R-Hanford, District 21)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Praying for every victim affected by this horrific tragedy in Las Vegas and their loved ones.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepDavidValadao\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongressmanDavidValadao/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Devin Nunes (R-Tulare, District 22)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@Rep_DevinNunes\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Congressman-Devin-Nunes-376470350795/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield, District 23)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Such a senseless tragedy in Las Vegas. This horrific act has our nation praying for the victims and their families. May God bless us all. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are so thankful for the bravery of the first responders and citizens who put themselves in danger to care for and protect others. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Communities across America will feel the pain of this violence personally—including my home town of Bakersfield.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@GOPLeader\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongressmanKevinMcCarthy/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara, District 24)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Horrified by reports from #LasVegas that yet another mass shooting has claimed innocent lives. My thoughts are w/ victims & their loved ones. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you to our first responders & medical teams, who bravely put themselves in harm’s way to save lives in the wake of #LasVegas tragedy. While we grieve, we must also realize that words aren’t enough. Our nation is facing a gun violence epidemic & Congress must take action.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepCarbajal\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CarbajalForCongress/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Steve Knight (R-Santa Clarita, District 25)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“RT: @KHTSRadio: Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by this tragedy. #prayforvegas #vegas #lasvegas #prayersforvegas. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/khtsradio/status/914880027551862785\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">https://twitter.com/khtsradio/status/914880027551862785\u003c/span>\u003c/a>”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@SteveKnight25\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepresentativeSteveKnight/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village, District 26)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@JuliaBrownley26\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJuliaBrownley/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park, District 27)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Too much pain in our country today. Our whole country stands with the survivors and families of those hurt and killed in Las Vegas. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we mourn yet another historic mass shooting in our country, our thoughts must be of solutions, our prayers for the courage to enact them. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among the 200+ victims in last night’s shooting were 2 @LASDHQ [LA County Sheriff] off-duty personnel. They are in our thoughts for a quick & full recovery.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepJudyChu\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJudyChu/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Adam Schiff (D-Burbank, District 28)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Devastating news from Las Vegas overnight. My heart is with the victims and their families. Is there no end to this terrible madness?”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepAdamSchiff\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepAdamSchiff/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tony Cardenas (D-San Fernando Valley, District 29)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My heart aches for the families that will never be whole again & victims of this shooting. No amount of thoughts & prayers are enough.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepCardenas\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/repcardenas/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks, District 30)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the tragic shooting in Las Vegas. Look forward to a full investigation to give us answers.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepPeteAguilar\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/reppeteaguilar/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pete Aguilar (D-San Bernardino, District 31)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely heartbroken to wake up to the news out of Las Vegas. My thoughts are with the victims and their families today.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepPeteAguilar\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/reppeteaguilar/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Grace Napolitano (D-El Monte, District 32)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“The carnage that occurred breaks our hearts and confounds our minds. Additional counseling and supportive mental health services should be made available for all concert-goers, first responders, and the entire Las Vegas community. While we do not yet know all of the details, including the gunmen’s motive, we refuse to accept gun violence. Together we must act boldly to stop this epidemic and prevent tragedies. Our hearts remain with the city of Las Vegas and all Nevadans today.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@gracenapolitano\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepGraceNapolitano/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ted Lieu (D-Torrance, District 33)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Heartbroken by the tragedy in #LasVegas last night. Our thoughts & prayers are w/ the people of Nevada & those affected. #LasVegasShooting”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@tedlieu\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepTedLieu/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles, District 34)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Stunned to hear this horrible news shortly after landing in Washington, D.C. my thoughts & prayers are with the victims & the injured.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJimmyGomez\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJimmyGomez/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Norma Torres (D-Pomona, District 35)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“The people of Las Vegas are in my prayers this morning. Thank you to the first responders. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In September, I opposed the SHARE Act, a @GOP bill that will make it easier for people to buy gun silencers. It has always been unconscionable that @GOP wants to make it easier for people to buy gun silencers – today more so than ever. As a former 911 dispatcher, I know that identifying the sound & location of gunfire can be the difference b/n life & death.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@NormaJTorres\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepNormaTorres/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Desert, District 36)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Gave my family an extra hug today and praying for anyone who lost a loved one or was injured by the horrific events in Las Vegas last night. We must come together to address the senseless gun violence plaguing our nation, because if we do nothing, nothing will change.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@CongressmanRuiz\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongressmanRaulRuizMD/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles, District 37)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“As we wake up to horrific and tragic news out of Las Vegas, our thoughts are with the hundreds harmed and their families.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepKarenBass\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepKarenBass/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Linda Sanchez (D-Orange, District 38)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My thoughts and prayers are with all those killed and wounded in #LasVegas shooting. This is an unimaginable heinous act of violence.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepLindaSanchez\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongresswomanLindaSanchez/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ed Royce (R-Fullerton, District 39)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“In the face of horrific tragedy, Americans everywhere stand united with the victims and first responders in Las Vegas.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepEdRoyce\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/EdRoyce/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Los Angeles, District 40)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Sickened and heartbroken by the news of another terrible gun massacre, this time in Las Vegas. Sending my prayers to the victims, their loved ones, and the first responders.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/@RepRoybalAllard\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepRoybalAllard/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mark Takano (D-Riverside, District 41)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Heartbroken over the tragedy in Las Vegas. I’m thinking about the victims and their loved ones, and about how we can make this stop.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepMarkTakano\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepMarkTakano/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ken Calvert (R-Corona, District 42)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My deepest condolences go out to the victims’ families and friends and to those injured in Las Vegas. My full statement [from screen grab]: “My deepest condolences go out to the victims’ families and friends and to those injured. I commend the rapid reaction from first responders and the medical staff who are currently treating those who were hurt. There are no words to express the sorrow at such a large number of lives lost. It defies comprehension. My prayers are with all those impacted.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KenCalvert\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepKenCalvert/?ref=br_rs\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Maxine Waters (D-Inglewood, District 43)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MaxineWaters\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MaxineWaters/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nanette Barragan (D-San Pedro, District 44)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Waking up to horrific news out of Las Vegas. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the Mandalay Bay shooting.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarragan\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongresswomanBarragan/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mimi Walters (R-Laguna Niguel, District 45)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Horrified & deeply saddened by the deadly shooting in Las Vegas. My heart & prayers are with the victims, their loved ones & all affected.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepMimiWalters\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepMimiWalters/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana, District 46)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“This is a national tragedy. My thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families. Orange County stands ready to offer any assistance we can.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepLouCorrea\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepLouCorrea/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach, District 47)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Devastated by the despicable shooting in #LasVegas last night. My heart goes out to all those affected.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepLowenthal\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepLowenthal/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa, District 48)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No comment posted.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DanaRohrabacher\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepRohrabacher/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Darrell Issa (R-Vista, District 49)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Horrific news out of Las Vegas this morning. Praying for victims, their families, first responders and all those affected. We are with you.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DarrellIssa\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CongressmanIssa/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Duncan D. Hunter (R-Lakeside, District 50)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Retweeted Paul Ryan: “America woke up to heartbreaking news from Las Vegas. We stand united in our shock, our condolences, & our prayers. spkrryan.us/2ySnJZG”\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Rep_Hunter\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DuncanHunter/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Juan Vargas (D-San Diego, District 51)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Devastated by the loss of innocent lives in Las Vegas. I’m praying for the victims and those injured by this senseless act of violence.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJuanVargas\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepJuanVargas/\">Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Scott Peters (D-La Jolla, District 52)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Horrified to wake up to the news out of #LasVegas. Praying for the victims of this senseless violence, their families and all those injured. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But prayers alone are not enough. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAS VEGAS — A gunman perched high on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower of bullets on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 59 people as thousands of concertgoers screamed and ran for their lives, officials said Monday. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said 527 injured were taken to local hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SWAT officers using explosives stormed the gunman's room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and found he had killed himself, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gunman was identified by Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo as \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/02/i-cant-even-make-something-up-no-clear-motive-for-las-vegas-gunman/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Craig Paddock\u003c/a>, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, a town 75 miles northeast of Las Vegas. Lombardo said officers \"located numerous firearms within the room\" Paddock had occupied since checking in last Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two officials familiar with the investigation say authorities found at least 17 guns in the hotel room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paddock also had two devices that attach to the stocks of semiautomatic firearms to allow fully automatic gunfire. These 'bump-stock' devices have attracted scrutiny in recent years from authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SchreiberEvan/status/914760840728911872\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the motive for the attack, Lombardo said: \"I can't get into the mind of a psychopath at this point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff said a check of federal and state databases showed Paddock was not on law enforcement authorities' radar before the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner of a Utah gun store said Paddock visited the store several times this year and bought a shotgun after passing a background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixie GunWorx owner Chris Michel said Paddock bought the shotgun in February and last visited the store in St. George, Utah, in the spring. It's a 40-minute drive from where Paddock lived in Mesquite, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"FJfxuKCtbCDJDDKIHt4jX0AvRSWLQlOl\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michel said he chatted with Paddock to make sure there were no signs that he shouldn't be allowed to buy a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were no red flags,\" Michel said. \"I had no idea he would be capable of this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Orlando Sentinel reported that Eric Paddock, a brother of the identified gunman, had made a statement to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are completely dumbfounded,” he said. “We can’t understand what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement delivered at the White House, President Trump called the attack \"an act of pure evil.\" He said he would visit Las Vegas on Wednesday and ordered flags on federal facilities to be flown at half-mast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ulKnsmkuqQK3VTsn6XudERVJ9IXkDwxe\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We pray for the day when evil is banished and the innocent are safe from fear,\" the president said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said there was no \"specific credible threat\" involving other public venues in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mideast, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack and said the gunman was \"a soldier\" who had converted to Islam months ago. But it provided no evidence, and the Los Angeles Times quoted Aaron Rouse, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Las Vegas field office, as saying federal authorities had found no ties between Paddock and outside groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have determined, to this point, no connection to an international terrorist group,\" Rouse said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/mC2stpAE2TA\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Country music star Jason Aldean was performing at the end of the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival in front of a crowd estimated at 22,000 when the gunman in the 44-floor Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino apparently used a hammer-like device to smash out windows in his room and then opened fire on the crowd massed below, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldean was in the middle of a song when the shots came rapidly: Pop-pop-pop-pop. Video of the shooting then showed Aldean stopping and the crowd getting quiet as if they were unsure of what had just happened. The gunman paused and then fired another volley. Members of the audience struck by the fusillade fell to the ground while others fled the scene or sought cover behind bleachers, concession stands or parked cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kodiak Yazzie, 36, said the music stopped temporarily when the first shots began and the tune even started up again before the second round of pops sent the performers ducking for cover and fleeing the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was the craziest stuff I've ever seen in my entire life,\" Yazzie said. \"You could hear that the noise was coming from west of us, from Mandalay Bay. You could see a flash- flash- flash- flash.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands in the crowd fled as the bullets ran rampant. Monique Dumas from British Columbia, Canada, said she was at the concert, six rows from the stage, when she thought she heard a bottle breaking, and then a burst of popping sounds that may have been fireworks. She said as she made her way out, it was \"organized chaos\" as everyone fled. \"It took four to five minutes and all that time there was gunfire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Paddock, police said they located a woman who may have been his roommate — Marilou Danley, 62. Lombardo said they believe this was a \"lone wolf\" attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a devastating time,\" Lombardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-856490308-e1506946407519.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-856490308-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concertgoers carry a person wounded Sunday night during sniper attack on outdoor music festival near the Las Vegas Strip. \u003ccite>(David Becker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police shut down the usually busy Las Vegas Boulevard and authorities across the state and federal ranks converged onto the scene as dozens of ambulances ferried those struck by gunfire. Nearby Interstate 15 and flights at McCarran International Airport were briefly closed. Hospital emergency rooms were jammed with victims delivered by ambulance. Others loaded the wounded into their cars and drove them to hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Ruben Kihuen, a Democrat whose congressional district includes a portion of Las Vegas, visited a hospital were some of the victims were taken and said: \"Literally, every single bed was being used, every single hallway was being used. Every single person there was trying to save a life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Baggett, 31, of Las Vegas, said he and a friend were in the lobby of the Luxor hotel-casino — directly north of the festival — when people began to run, almost like in a stampede. He said people were crying and as he and his friend started walking away minutes later, they encountered police checkpoints where officers were carrying shotguns and assault rifles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were armored personnel vehicles, SWAT vehicles, ambulances, and at least a half-mile of police cars,\" Baggett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/10/20171002tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-856536570-800x533.jpg\" Title=\"Deadliest Mass Shooting in Modern U.S. History Unfolds in Las Vegas\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those killed were two off-duty police officers who were attending the concert. 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It's a 40-minute drive from where Paddock lived in Mesquite, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michel said he chatted with Paddock to make sure there were no signs that he shouldn't be allowed to buy a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were no red flags,\" Michel said. \"I had no idea he would be capable of this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Orlando Sentinel reported that Eric Paddock, a brother of the identified gunman, had made a statement to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are completely dumbfounded,” he said. “We can’t understand what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement delivered at the White House, President Trump called the attack \"an act of pure evil.\" He said he would visit Las Vegas on Wednesday and ordered flags on federal facilities to be flown at half-mast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We pray for the day when evil is banished and the innocent are safe from fear,\" the president said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said there was no \"specific credible threat\" involving other public venues in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mideast, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack and said the gunman was \"a soldier\" who had converted to Islam months ago. But it provided no evidence, and the Los Angeles Times quoted Aaron Rouse, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Las Vegas field office, as saying federal authorities had found no ties between Paddock and outside groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have determined, to this point, no connection to an international terrorist group,\" Rouse said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/mC2stpAE2TA\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Country music star Jason Aldean was performing at the end of the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival in front of a crowd estimated at 22,000 when the gunman in the 44-floor Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino apparently used a hammer-like device to smash out windows in his room and then opened fire on the crowd massed below, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldean was in the middle of a song when the shots came rapidly: Pop-pop-pop-pop. 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Monique Dumas from British Columbia, Canada, said she was at the concert, six rows from the stage, when she thought she heard a bottle breaking, and then a burst of popping sounds that may have been fireworks. She said as she made her way out, it was \"organized chaos\" as everyone fled. \"It took four to five minutes and all that time there was gunfire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Paddock, police said they located a woman who may have been his roommate — Marilou Danley, 62. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a series called \"Faces of the Vietnam War.\" Recently, KQED asked our audience to submit their stories about the Vietnam War. We heard from refugees, military veterans, journalists, activists and more. This story comes from San Mateo resident David Meisenheimer, who gave up his student deferment from the draft because he felt it was too privileged. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-'60s, while I was a high school student, I was in support of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In the Bay Area, there was an increasing amount of voices opposing the war. I explored information available in our high school library that convinced me our politicians were not providing the complete story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We really were not getting accurate information. That really shaped everything that happened to me for the rest of my life. It definitely made me think, and I wasn't gonna naturally accept what my government said to me ever again from that time forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came time to register to vote, I chose \"declines to state.\" I had (have) no faith in our political \"leaders\" to tell the truth about anything. I did not consider the politicians to be leaders. I felt they were more interested in their own position than they were their constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/09/MeisenheimerProfile.mp3\" title=\"This Vietnam Objector Says The Government Was Spreading Fake News Back Then—And He Never Trusted What They Said Again\" Program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26575_20170912_VietnamStories_DavidMeisenheimer_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March of 1968, I turned 18 and registered for the draft. That fall, I started college and received a student deferment. Before the end of that year, I had dropped out of school and lost my student deferment. I went back to school for the 1969 spring semester. I wanted my student deferment back, and I went to Berkeley seeking assistance from the draft resistance. Their solution was for me to immediately leave the country, and they told me they had resources that would help me do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, I returned to the library. I went through a copy of the Selective Service Act and located a paragraph that outlined a process for having a student deferment reinstated. I followed that process and my student deferment was reinstated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, I became aware that a disproportionate number of draftees were people of color because college was not an option for so many young men of color as it was to white males. I felt like it wasn't right for me, as a white male, to have a student deferment. 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I had not had a ruling on my CO status, but I knew what I would do at my physical. By this time, I had read about others who refused to accept the military oath after passing their physicals. I knew what to expect and I was prepared to deal with those consequences whatever they might have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was now June and time for school finals. I had an English professor who helped with a letter submitted to my draft board that said my physical was scheduled for the same day as my final, and that was the only day I would be able to take the final. The board excused me from my physical appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board had also denied my initial request for CO status and I began the appeal process. I did receive two more notices to report for physicals over the next several months, but because I was still in the appeal process I did not have to report. I appeared before my draft board as part of the appeal process and it did last for many months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, I was awarded CO status. The only draft card I ever signed was the one I received with my CO status. No doubt I received CO status more because of the military's need to process young men who were not resisting than I did for my moral convictions. Regardless, I felt a sense of accomplishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really felt like the people who refused induction -- those people were the heroes for me. I know that even to this day they're not viewed that way. They were sometimes viewed as having taken the easy way out. Sometimes they were viewed as cowards, but I feel like those people -- they were really heroes. They really did love their country and they did exactly what was right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619991\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11619991\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26577_20170912_VietnamStories_DavidMeisenheimer_Credit_BertJohnson-5-qut-1-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26577_20170912_VietnamStories_DavidMeisenheimer_Credit_BertJohnson-5-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26577_20170912_VietnamStories_DavidMeisenheimer_Credit_BertJohnson-5-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26577_20170912_VietnamStories_DavidMeisenheimer_Credit_BertJohnson-5-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26577_20170912_VietnamStories_DavidMeisenheimer_Credit_BertJohnson-5-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26577_20170912_VietnamStories_DavidMeisenheimer_Credit_BertJohnson-5-qut-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26577_20170912_VietnamStories_DavidMeisenheimer_Credit_BertJohnson-5-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26577_20170912_VietnamStories_DavidMeisenheimer_Credit_BertJohnson-5-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26577_20170912_VietnamStories_DavidMeisenheimer_Credit_BertJohnson-5-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26577_20170912_VietnamStories_DavidMeisenheimer_Credit_BertJohnson-5-qut-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Meisenheimer holds up one of the many draft cards he received while pursuing his conscientious objector status. He never signed any of them, except the card that granted him his CO status. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I know initially my opposition to Vietnam caused strain in my relationship with my dad. He was a World War II veteran and he did support the war effort early on, as did I. He was really impacted by the Second World War and, like almost everybody, he believed that the United States had to stand up to what was going on in Vietnam. But with time and numerous conversations, as well as so many stories unfolding in the press, my dad changed his feelings about the war and was strongly opposed to our involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Editor's note: When KQED asked Meisenheimer about his strained relationship with his dad, he said it wasn't any different from a disagreement any 18-year-old would have with his father.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It strikes me that at this point -- 50 years later -- there's still all this strong emotion about, \"Yes, we should have been there,\" or \"No, we shouldn't have been there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't feel that has changed and much of what I see happening in our country today reminds me of the turbulent '60s. There's this sense that you've got these opposing sides and people aren't listening to one another. They're not trying to be thoughtful about what's going on. 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I had not had a ruling on my CO status, but I knew what I would do at my physical. By this time, I had read about others who refused to accept the military oath after passing their physicals. I knew what to expect and I was prepared to deal with those consequences whatever they might have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was now June and time for school finals. I had an English professor who helped with a letter submitted to my draft board that said my physical was scheduled for the same day as my final, and that was the only day I would be able to take the final. The board excused me from my physical appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board had also denied my initial request for CO status and I began the appeal process. I did receive two more notices to report for physicals over the next several months, but because I was still in the appeal process I did not have to report. I appeared before my draft board as part of the appeal process and it did last for many months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, I was awarded CO status. The only draft card I ever signed was the one I received with my CO status. No doubt I received CO status more because of the military's need to process young men who were not resisting than I did for my moral convictions. Regardless, I felt a sense of accomplishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really felt like the people who refused induction -- those people were the heroes for me. I know that even to this day they're not viewed that way. They were sometimes viewed as having taken the easy way out. Sometimes they were viewed as cowards, but I feel like those people -- they were really heroes. 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He never signed any of them, except the card that granted him his CO status. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I know initially my opposition to Vietnam caused strain in my relationship with my dad. He was a World War II veteran and he did support the war effort early on, as did I. He was really impacted by the Second World War and, like almost everybody, he believed that the United States had to stand up to what was going on in Vietnam. But with time and numerous conversations, as well as so many stories unfolding in the press, my dad changed his feelings about the war and was strongly opposed to our involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Editor's note: When KQED asked Meisenheimer about his strained relationship with his dad, he said it wasn't any different from a disagreement any 18-year-old would have with his father.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It strikes me that at this point -- 50 years later -- there's still all this strong emotion about, \"Yes, we should have been there,\" or \"No, we shouldn't have been there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't feel that has changed and much of what I see happening in our country today reminds me of the turbulent '60s. There's this sense that you've got these opposing sides and people aren't listening to one another. They're not trying to be thoughtful about what's going on. 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"content": "\u003cp>In most states the process of redrawing political lines, or redistricting, is controlled by the party in power, which makes it an inherently political job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court takes up this question: Can gerrymandering go \u003cem>too far\u003c/em>, be so extreme and partisan that it systematically disadvantages the voters of one party?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric McGhee of the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) describes the situation in the case from Wisconsin this way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What you have right now is this situation where if the Democrats end up getting a majority of the vote, they need way more than a simple 50 percent majority in order to gain a majority of the seats,\" McGhee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGhee has developed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legal-work/How_the_Efficiency_Gap_Standard_Works.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mathematical formula\u003c/a> to objectively measure \u003ci>how \u003c/i> partisan political lines are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, Wisconsin Republicans flexed their muscles by spreading out Democratic voters into districts the party couldn't really win, \u003ci>or\u003c/i> by packing them into districts so that they had way more voters than they needed to win the seat. McGhee calls it \"packing or cracking\" and describes the result as \"wasting votes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The party that has more wasted votes is not winning as efficiently,\" McGhee said. \"It’s got a lot of supporters who are not directly translating into more wins.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/gill-v-whitford/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gill v. Whitford\u003c/a>, is an appeal of a lower court ruling in Wisconsin that struck down the redistricting map drawn by Republicans in the state Legislature after the 2010 census, saying it was the result of \"partisan gerrymandering.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gerrymander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gerrymandering\u003c/a>\" goes back to 1812 -- and it refers to politicians drawing odd-shaped political districts to help their own party win more seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"wKASgMBTijLxUrfzR5HBgzwVWnAID7ju\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question for the Supreme Court is whether gerrymandering can go too far. Can it be so extreme and partisan that it systematically disadvantages the voters of one party?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court has taken up the question of gerrymandering several times, most recently in a 2004 case from Pennsylvania called \u003ca href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2003/02-1580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vieth v. Jubelirer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices were split 5-4, declining to toss out Pennsylvania's map. But Justice Anthony Kennedy said he'd be open to reconsidering the notion of extreme partisan gerrymandering \u003cem>if\u003c/em> there were a tool to objectively measure it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGhee's \"efficiency gap\" calculation, which he described in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/16-1161-ac-eric-mcghee.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amicus brief\u003c/a> to the court, might satisfy Kennedy's concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, California voters took redistricting \u003ci>away\u003c/i> from politicians and gave it to an independent, nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citizens Redistricting Commission\u003c/a>. Jeanne Raya from Los Angeles County is the current chair of that commission, which held hearings all over the state before drawing the lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raya says the entire process was \"to make sure that there was complete transparency and complete independence in the process so that the districts reflect the people who live there and give them the opportunity to elect someone who’s going to represent their interests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raya’s commission submitted a \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/16-1161-bsac-CA-citizens-redistricting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brief\u003c/a> to the Supreme Court describing how California politicians were prevented from putting their own interests ahead of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is part of a bipartisan coalition urging the court to strike down partisan gerrymandering. He'll be in the courtroom Tuesday morning for oral arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court will issue a decision in the case by the end of June -- just a few months before next year’s congressional elections. The outcome could affect which party controls Congress.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a series called \"Faces of the Vietnam War.\" KQED recently asked our audience to submit their stories about the Vietnam War. We heard from refugees, military veterans, journalists, activists and more. This story is about San Francisco resident John Dubpernell, 67, who served in the U.S. Army during the war.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anniversaries can be important for veterans. “For me, it’s March 5,” said veteran John Dubpernell. On that date in 1971, he was a door gunner serving in Vietnam with the 282nd Assault Helicopter Company, which was providing air support for the South Vietnamese army during an operation called Lam Son 719. “Vietnam’s version of D-Day” is what he calls it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. military deployed many helicopters during the massive campaign, including Dubpernell’s Huey. One day, while his aircraft was returning from a dangerous mission, a mayday call came over the radio. Dubpernell, who was sitting in the left doorway, looked out over the far side of the gunship and said he saw another helicopter going down in flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now on high alert, his helicopter began taking fire. “I don’t know whether I hear or feel the aircraft taking hits,” he recalled. “So I immediately started firing below.” After they got clear of the area, Dubpernell said he noticed that his seat, which had been modified to include an armor plate by a previous crew member, had stopped an AK-47 bullet. “That saved my life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619601\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11619601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-1020x670.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-1920x1260.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-960x630.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bullet holes in John Dubpernell's helicopter after a firefight on March 5, 1971 \u003ccite>(Courtesy John Dubpernell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lam Son 719 was one of the bloodiest battles in the war, and Army helicopter crews \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/uncovering-the-story-of-one-of-the-vietnam-wars-bloodiest-battles-2015-1\">suffered heavy losses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Dubpernell avoided the anniversary of the day when he was nearly killed. “When I came home in December of 1971, I put a weld around the door that was that part of my life,” he told KQED. It was only much later, in the late '90s, that he would revisit his time in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubpernell had been drafted into the Army in June 1970 and served on UH-1 Huey gunships, which he calls “the Jeep of the sky.” He was stationed in Da Nang, a city on Vietnam's central coast, and quickly rose through the enlisted ranks to become a crew chief -- a job that made him responsible for the whole helicopter, including its maintenance, fueling and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, Dubpernell still holds the fellowship of being on a combat flight crew in high esteem. “There's that unspoken aspect of camaraderie,” he said. “In civilian life, you'll never experience it.” But his combat experience left him traumatized and disenchanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The urge to put Vietnam behind him began soon after Dubpernell returned home. Revelations about the government’s dishonest handling of the war only deepened his desire to forget his experiences, he said. “I read Daniel Ellsberg's 'Pentagon Papers' and that's when it really cemented my feelings about Vietnam -- really putting a weld around the door and wanting to forget the whole thing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I just had this compelling desire to go back to Vietnam. And in my heart, I wanted to correct all of the wrongs that were done.'\u003ccite>John Dubpernell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When he was 41, Dubpernell got laid off from his job as a production coordinator for a San Francisco-based printer and began searching for meaning in life. He ended up reading \"When Heaven and Earth Changed Places,\" a memoir by Vietnamese-American author Le Ly Hayslip about her experience of the war as a child. In it, he learned that Hayslip had founded a nonprofit called East Meets West, which provides support for a government-run orphanage in Da Nang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubpernell decided to visit the orphanage, called Village of Hope, in December 1998. “I just had this compelling desire to go back to Vietnam. And in my heart, I wanted to correct all of the wrongs that were done,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Dubpernell was visiting the East Meets West offices in Da Nang, the staff told him they were planning to celebrate Christmas with the kids in the orphanage and invited him along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're even going to have a Santa Claus,” he remembers them saying. Back at his hotel, Dubpernell thought about the celebration and came to a decision: “I'm saying to myself: I want to be that Santa Claus. I've got the moustache.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11619603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dubpernell shows photos from his visits to Village of Hope, an orphanage in Da Nang, Vietnam. He has gone back three times to play Santa Claus and distribute gifts to the children who live there. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The staff agreed and Dubpernell, dressed as St. Nicholas, shared dinner and gifts with the children at Village of Hope. The experience was so gratifying that he went back. “I have done three trips, each time going back in December and playing Santa Claus in Da Nang,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following that first visit, Dubpernell started experiencing severe symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In the decades following his deployment, he'd struggled with anger issues, but his return to Da Nang set off a new series of reactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was a basket case in terms of crying,” he told KQED. “I was drinking heavily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some friends, fellow combat veterans, grew concerned when they recognized his symptoms and urged him to seek help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubpernell followed their advice and enrolled in a mental health program at the VA’s San Francisco medical center in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once he was diagnosed with PTSD, Dubpernell committed himself to treatment and still attends group therapy three times a week. “All those years I invested in my PTSD therapies, it pays off,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619611\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11619611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-1020x662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-800x519.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-1180x766.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-960x623.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-375x243.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-520x338.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit.jpg 1819w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dubpernell photographed early in his deployment to Vietnam. \u003ccite>(Courtesy John Dubpernell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The trauma Dubpernell experienced has affected his life in other ways, too. “Like other people dealing with PTSD, relationships are a real challenge,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubpernell, who came out as gay shortly after he left the military, described a fraught romantic life. “I think the longest relationship I ever had was two months, so it was very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his deployment, he remembers he had to be on guard for fear of revealing his identity as a gay man. But in the years since, Dubpernell said that other Vietnam veterans have been accepting of his sexual orientation. “It was a non-issue, as long as you did your job,” he said. “And I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although his return trips offered Dubpernell a chance to make amends and connect with a new generation of Vietnamese children, they were bittersweet. During his visits to Da Nang, Dubpernell said, he repressed the feelings that came back to him until he got home, just like he had during the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Vietnam, you had a job to do and you couldn't allow your emotions to get in the way,” he said. “When I was doing my Santa thing I couldn't allow my emotions to get in the way, because I had a job to do: playing Santa Claus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Peter Arcuni contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a series called \"Faces of the Vietnam War.\" KQED recently asked our audience to submit their stories about the Vietnam War. We heard from refugees, military veterans, journalists, activists and more. This story is about San Francisco resident John Dubpernell, 67, who served in the U.S. Army during the war.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anniversaries can be important for veterans. “For me, it’s March 5,” said veteran John Dubpernell. On that date in 1971, he was a door gunner serving in Vietnam with the 282nd Assault Helicopter Company, which was providing air support for the South Vietnamese army during an operation called Lam Son 719. “Vietnam’s version of D-Day” is what he calls it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. military deployed many helicopters during the massive campaign, including Dubpernell’s Huey. One day, while his aircraft was returning from a dangerous mission, a mayday call came over the radio. Dubpernell, who was sitting in the left doorway, looked out over the far side of the gunship and said he saw another helicopter going down in flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now on high alert, his helicopter began taking fire. “I don’t know whether I hear or feel the aircraft taking hits,” he recalled. “So I immediately started firing below.” After they got clear of the area, Dubpernell said he noticed that his seat, which had been modified to include an armor plate by a previous crew member, had stopped an AK-47 bullet. “That saved my life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619601\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11619601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-1020x670.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-1920x1260.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-960x630.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/00186_p_11afcgqrw30067_z-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bullet holes in John Dubpernell's helicopter after a firefight on March 5, 1971 \u003ccite>(Courtesy John Dubpernell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lam Son 719 was one of the bloodiest battles in the war, and Army helicopter crews \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/uncovering-the-story-of-one-of-the-vietnam-wars-bloodiest-battles-2015-1\">suffered heavy losses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Dubpernell avoided the anniversary of the day when he was nearly killed. “When I came home in December of 1971, I put a weld around the door that was that part of my life,” he told KQED. It was only much later, in the late '90s, that he would revisit his time in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubpernell had been drafted into the Army in June 1970 and served on UH-1 Huey gunships, which he calls “the Jeep of the sky.” He was stationed in Da Nang, a city on Vietnam's central coast, and quickly rose through the enlisted ranks to become a crew chief -- a job that made him responsible for the whole helicopter, including its maintenance, fueling and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, Dubpernell still holds the fellowship of being on a combat flight crew in high esteem. “There's that unspoken aspect of camaraderie,” he said. “In civilian life, you'll never experience it.” But his combat experience left him traumatized and disenchanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The urge to put Vietnam behind him began soon after Dubpernell returned home. Revelations about the government’s dishonest handling of the war only deepened his desire to forget his experiences, he said. “I read Daniel Ellsberg's 'Pentagon Papers' and that's when it really cemented my feelings about Vietnam -- really putting a weld around the door and wanting to forget the whole thing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I just had this compelling desire to go back to Vietnam. And in my heart, I wanted to correct all of the wrongs that were done.'\u003ccite>John Dubpernell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When he was 41, Dubpernell got laid off from his job as a production coordinator for a San Francisco-based printer and began searching for meaning in life. He ended up reading \"When Heaven and Earth Changed Places,\" a memoir by Vietnamese-American author Le Ly Hayslip about her experience of the war as a child. In it, he learned that Hayslip had founded a nonprofit called East Meets West, which provides support for a government-run orphanage in Da Nang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubpernell decided to visit the orphanage, called Village of Hope, in December 1998. “I just had this compelling desire to go back to Vietnam. And in my heart, I wanted to correct all of the wrongs that were done,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Dubpernell was visiting the East Meets West offices in Da Nang, the staff told him they were planning to celebrate Christmas with the kids in the orphanage and invited him along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're even going to have a Santa Claus,” he remembers them saying. Back at his hotel, Dubpernell thought about the celebration and came to a decision: “I'm saying to myself: I want to be that Santa Claus. I've got the moustache.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11619603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS26580_20170912_VietnamStories_JohnDubpernell_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dubpernell shows photos from his visits to Village of Hope, an orphanage in Da Nang, Vietnam. He has gone back three times to play Santa Claus and distribute gifts to the children who live there. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The staff agreed and Dubpernell, dressed as St. Nicholas, shared dinner and gifts with the children at Village of Hope. The experience was so gratifying that he went back. “I have done three trips, each time going back in December and playing Santa Claus in Da Nang,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following that first visit, Dubpernell started experiencing severe symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In the decades following his deployment, he'd struggled with anger issues, but his return to Da Nang set off a new series of reactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was a basket case in terms of crying,” he told KQED. “I was drinking heavily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some friends, fellow combat veterans, grew concerned when they recognized his symptoms and urged him to seek help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubpernell followed their advice and enrolled in a mental health program at the VA’s San Francisco medical center in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once he was diagnosed with PTSD, Dubpernell committed himself to treatment and still attends group therapy three times a week. “All those years I invested in my PTSD therapies, it pays off,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619611\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11619611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-1020x662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-800x519.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-1180x766.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-960x623.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-375x243.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit-520x338.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Dubpernell-edit.jpg 1819w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dubpernell photographed early in his deployment to Vietnam. \u003ccite>(Courtesy John Dubpernell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The trauma Dubpernell experienced has affected his life in other ways, too. “Like other people dealing with PTSD, relationships are a real challenge,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubpernell, who came out as gay shortly after he left the military, described a fraught romantic life. “I think the longest relationship I ever had was two months, so it was very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his deployment, he remembers he had to be on guard for fear of revealing his identity as a gay man. But in the years since, Dubpernell said that other Vietnam veterans have been accepting of his sexual orientation. “It was a non-issue, as long as you did your job,” he said. “And I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although his return trips offered Dubpernell a chance to make amends and connect with a new generation of Vietnamese children, they were bittersweet. During his visits to Da Nang, Dubpernell said, he repressed the feelings that came back to him until he got home, just like he had during the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Vietnam, you had a job to do and you couldn't allow your emotions to get in the way,” he said. “When I was doing my Santa thing I couldn't allow my emotions to get in the way, because I had a job to do: playing Santa Claus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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My siblings and I never saw the soldiers twitch, move or give any other indication that they were still alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/09/2017-09-22c-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26907_20170912_VietnamStories_AngelaShortt_Credit_BertJohnson-1-2-qut.jpg\" Title=\"'More Than Hell': A Military Brat's Vietnam\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to pray that all of them would live, because we also saw the crew members tossing out what looked like large black garbage bags from the back of the C-131s and the C-141s, and my sister and I came to the nearly simultaneous conclusion that the bags contained dead bodies. 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They all had that eerie deadman's stare that sent an involuntary shudder through my entire body whenever I saw them sitting in the wheelchairs that lined the hospital's hallways. They never blinked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of them were missing body parts. They had tubes going up their arms and bandages all over. I don't know why they would have these guys out in the hallways in wheelchairs, but they would. Maybe the rooms were too crowded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't even remember talking about this stuff with other kids at all. And maybe things are different now, but back then you tried to live a life that was kind of normal. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a package of legislation to ease California's housing crunch, answering years of calls for a strong state response to skyrocketing home prices and rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills signed Friday combine new funding for housing construction with new rules to streamline the development process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a big challenge. We have risen to it this year,\" said Brown, who put his signature on what he called \"15 good bills\" at a ceremony in San Francisco's Hunters Point neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New funding for housing construction, rental assistance and homeless programs will come from a housing bond (if voters approve it next year) and a fee on certain real estate transactions, like a mortgage refinancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streamlining rules will make it harder for local governments to block certain housing developments, if they have failed to meet previous goals for approving units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620174\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown stands with state lawmakers in San Francisco after signing a package of housing legislation on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-800x546.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-1180x805.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-960x655.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-240x164.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-375x256.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/HousingSigning-520x355.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown stands with state lawmakers in San Francisco after signing a package of housing legislation on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We gotta figure out a way to streamline, and we're doing that in these bills,\" Brown added. He said government needs to subsidize housing in markets where prices have spiraled out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In speeches celebrating the bills signed, legislators revealed details of the delicate process that culminated with Friday's signing ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León said San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener \"squatted in my office every single day,\" as lawmakers worked on a housing deal that could pass both houses and win the governor's approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"hKBlBR6hiQSYg1JyOb6t1rIrpFWyGEsW\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco recounted the governor showing up unexpectedly in his office to promise a group of Assembly members that the housing package would get done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates and mayors from the state's largest cities attended the ceremony, and urged the Legislature to continue its work addressing the issue next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown begrudgingly agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Have [the bills] ended the need for further legislation? Unfortunately not,\" Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then pleaded, \"Not so many bills next year, guys.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fifty years ago, a program started at San Francisco State University that since has spread throughout much of the California State University system. \u003ca href=\"http://asi.sfsu.edu/asprograms/project-rebound/\">Project Rebound\u003c/a>, which helps formerly incarcerated people attend college, celebrated its anniversary this week with a commemorative dinner and the opening of an art exhibition featuring students and alumni.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s easy for people to say, ‘You know, get out of prison, get out of jail, go do the right thing,’ \" says Jason Bell, the program’s regional director. \"But what does that right thing look like if there are not places designed to receive people who are doing the right thing?”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Project Rebound opened up education as an option for Bell, even though he never saw himself as “college material” growing up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That all changed when he began writing to the program from San Quentin State Prison after finding old informational brochures. Bell had spent nearly all of his 20s behind bars. Just two months shy of his 30th birthday, he was released from prison with a plan for his future.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Bell and many others, the program offers an alternate path to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-ndga/legacy/2014/12/12/Reentry%20Fact%20Sheet%20_FINAL.pdf\">revolving door of the criminal justice system\u003c/a> by providing a supportive educational experience.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ninety-five percent of formerly incarcerated people who seek education stay out of prison, according to data from S.F. State and the \u003ca href=\"https://uiowa.edu/higheredandsuccessfulreentry/sites/uiowa.edu.higheredandsuccessfulreentry/files/esperian.pdf\">Journal of Correctional Education\u003c/a>, while the rate for those who don’t seek education is 30 percent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619947\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11619947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project Rebound celebrates its 50th anniversary by opening an art exhibition featuring students and alumni at San Francisco State University on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>50 Years of Prison-Building\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“For fifty years, this country has embarked on this madness of building more and more prisons and locking up more and more people in harsher and harsher conditions,” said author and Yale Law School professor James Forman Jr., during the anniversary celebration. “But the question is, how are we going to move from some chatter to actual meaningful change? And I think that's where the people in this room come in.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Project Rebound students are successful when it comes to actually graduating. The program boasts an 86 percent six-year graduation rate, compared with a 59 percent rate for all other CSU students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s been so successful because they have a lot of staff that are passionate about the work that they do,” said Tangela Griffin, a Project Rebound student and artist featured in the exhibition. “Now that I realize that I do have a second chance, Project Rebound has given me the tools that I need to keep the path going. If it wasn’t for them, I don’t know where I’d be today.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After helping students enroll in the CSU system, the program serves as a liaison to supportive services on campus and links students with food vouchers, mental health support, textbook money, counseling, \u003ca href=\"https://sociology.sfsu.edu/content/dr-john-irwin-memorial-scholarship\">scholarships\u003c/a> and employment connections, to name a few.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I found personally that it helps having a support system with men and women who have been through some of the same experiences that I have, in terms of being adversely impacted by the criminal justice system,” said Curtis Penn, S.F. State’s Project Rebound director.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So far, 150 Project Rebound students have graduated, and the number of graduates per year has been steadily increasing since the early 2000s. Since 2011, there has been an average of 11 graduates per year through the program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the future of Project Rebound did not always look so bright.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The program began in 1967 when the only open space in the sociology department at S.F. State -- a storage closet -- was converted into the project's first office.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There were some times where it was really rough on us, and there were some people who were trying to get rid of us,” Bell said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619948\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11619948\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project Rebound regional director Jason Bell and S.F. State President Leslie Wong sit among the audience at the 50th anniversary celebration of the program at San Francisco State University on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The man who started it all, John Irwin, had served a five-year sentence at Soledad State Prison and earned college credits through a university extension program. After he was released, he earned his bachelor's at UCLA and his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, eventually becoming a professor at S.F. State.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He founded Project Rebound to help give formerly incarcerated individuals the same opportunity for higher education that he had received. The program later expanded and became part of Associated Students, a group of services and program dedicated to students at S.F. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fifty years ago, a program started at San Francisco State University that since has spread throughout much of the California State University system. \u003ca href=\"http://asi.sfsu.edu/asprograms/project-rebound/\">Project Rebound\u003c/a>, which helps formerly incarcerated people attend college, celebrated its anniversary this week with a commemorative dinner and the opening of an art exhibition featuring students and alumni.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s easy for people to say, ‘You know, get out of prison, get out of jail, go do the right thing,’ \" says Jason Bell, the program’s regional director. \"But what does that right thing look like if there are not places designed to receive people who are doing the right thing?”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Project Rebound opened up education as an option for Bell, even though he never saw himself as “college material” growing up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That all changed when he began writing to the program from San Quentin State Prison after finding old informational brochures. Bell had spent nearly all of his 20s behind bars. Just two months shy of his 30th birthday, he was released from prison with a plan for his future.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Bell and many others, the program offers an alternate path to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-ndga/legacy/2014/12/12/Reentry%20Fact%20Sheet%20_FINAL.pdf\">revolving door of the criminal justice system\u003c/a> by providing a supportive educational experience.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ninety-five percent of formerly incarcerated people who seek education stay out of prison, according to data from S.F. State and the \u003ca href=\"https://uiowa.edu/higheredandsuccessfulreentry/sites/uiowa.edu.higheredandsuccessfulreentry/files/esperian.pdf\">Journal of Correctional Education\u003c/a>, while the rate for those who don’t seek education is 30 percent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619947\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11619947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27065_IMG_9164-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project Rebound celebrates its 50th anniversary by opening an art exhibition featuring students and alumni at San Francisco State University on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>50 Years of Prison-Building\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“For fifty years, this country has embarked on this madness of building more and more prisons and locking up more and more people in harsher and harsher conditions,” said author and Yale Law School professor James Forman Jr., during the anniversary celebration. “But the question is, how are we going to move from some chatter to actual meaningful change? And I think that's where the people in this room come in.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Project Rebound students are successful when it comes to actually graduating. The program boasts an 86 percent six-year graduation rate, compared with a 59 percent rate for all other CSU students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s been so successful because they have a lot of staff that are passionate about the work that they do,” said Tangela Griffin, a Project Rebound student and artist featured in the exhibition. “Now that I realize that I do have a second chance, Project Rebound has given me the tools that I need to keep the path going. If it wasn’t for them, I don’t know where I’d be today.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After helping students enroll in the CSU system, the program serves as a liaison to supportive services on campus and links students with food vouchers, mental health support, textbook money, counseling, \u003ca href=\"https://sociology.sfsu.edu/content/dr-john-irwin-memorial-scholarship\">scholarships\u003c/a> and employment connections, to name a few.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I found personally that it helps having a support system with men and women who have been through some of the same experiences that I have, in terms of being adversely impacted by the criminal justice system,” said Curtis Penn, S.F. State’s Project Rebound director.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So far, 150 Project Rebound students have graduated, and the number of graduates per year has been steadily increasing since the early 2000s. Since 2011, there has been an average of 11 graduates per year through the program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the future of Project Rebound did not always look so bright.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The program began in 1967 when the only open space in the sociology department at S.F. State -- a storage closet -- was converted into the project's first office.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There were some times where it was really rough on us, and there were some people who were trying to get rid of us,” Bell said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619948\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11619948\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS27067_IMG_9273-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project Rebound regional director Jason Bell and S.F. State President Leslie Wong sit among the audience at the 50th anniversary celebration of the program at San Francisco State University on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The man who started it all, John Irwin, had served a five-year sentence at Soledad State Prison and earned college credits through a university extension program. After he was released, he earned his bachelor's at UCLA and his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, eventually becoming a professor at S.F. State.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He founded Project Rebound to help give formerly incarcerated individuals the same opportunity for higher education that he had received. The program later expanded and became part of Associated Students, a group of services and program dedicated to students at S.F. State.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He is no longer with us, but we continue his legacy,” Penn said about Irwin, who died in 2010.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The program has been implemented at nine CSUs to date and plans to expand to seven more over the next three years, according to Bell. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "As Gov. Brown Signs New Housing Laws, Cities Get Ready -- On Their Own Terms",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law more than a dozen bills to address California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/housing-costs-high-california/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">housing crisis\u003c/a>. Now it's up to cities and counties to begin faithfully (or maybe not so faithfully) enacting the state’s new housing agenda. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process has already begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is that we have to comply with these laws of the state of California now,” said Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín, whose city has been defined for years by fights between pro- and slow-development forces. “And so how can we comply ... but also preserve some degree of local control?” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tension between cities’ traditional prerogative over local land use and the state’s broader interest in more housing for dwelling-strapped California framed much of the housing debate in Sacramento this year. Now officials in San Jose, San Luis Obispo, Redondo Beach and other locales are exploring how to work within the new rules -- on their own terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguín applauds state lawmakers for finally taking action on an issue that cities have been fighting alone for years. New funding is particularly welcome. A pair of new laws offer the promise of fresh dollars for affordable housing construction via a new \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fee\u003c/a> on real estate documents and a 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bond measure\u003c/a>. Those proposals earned the plaudits of local elected leaders and governance groups across the state, including the League of California Cities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620065\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/JesseArreguin.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11620065\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/JesseArreguin.jpg 350w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/JesseArreguin-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/JesseArreguin-240x160.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín \u003ccite>(City of Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But like most local leaders, Arreguín also has his share of reservations, especially about measures that could make it more difficult to deny new projects they disapprove of. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One will \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB35\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">require\u003c/a> cities that aren’t meeting their state-determined targets for housing production to offer developers an alternative, “streamlined” approval process. To qualify for fast-track treatment, new multifamily housing developments will have to meet current zoning standards, set aside a certain share of below-market units and pay their workers union wages. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How many developers will be willing to tick those boxes is unclear, but proponents call streamlining a necessary measure to bypass NIMBY obstructionism. Many cities call it a usurpation of local authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB167\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">measure\u003c/a> will make it harder for cities to deny new housing projects if they otherwise comply with local rules, and will raise the penalty for municipalities that wrongly do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Berkeley did not officially adopt a position on either bill while lawmakers were considering them. But a local response is now in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguín said he is developing a Berkeley-specific streamlining process that would be available to developers in addition to the new state process. His alternative is still in its early stages, but the mayor hopes it will steer developers toward low- and moderate-income projects and those providing additional community benefits that are still undefined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s planning commission is also working on tighter zoning laws that would feature new density requirements and design standards while staying in tune with state law. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we set local requirements that still give the city some flexibility in shaping -- not denying -- but shaping projects, we can ensure compliance with [new laws] and still maintain some degree of control,” Arreguín said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar conversation is taking place across San Francisco Bay in Corte Madera, a small town in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the town approved a 180-unit apartment complex along Highway 101 over the vociferous objections of some community members, Vice Mayor Carla Condon said the town is looking for less obtrusive ways to expand the housing stock. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Corte Madera is one city trying to thread the needle between new state mandates and local interests.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620075\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corte Madera is one city trying to thread the needle between new state mandates and local interests. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One option the town is considering is to waive fees and loosen regulations on secondary dwellings, those fashioned within or near a main home. This might make it easier to convert a basement into an apartment or build a tiny house in a backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing our best to be compliant but also to try to maintain the small-town character that everybody really cherishes in this community,” Condon said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear that secondary units will accommodate the town’s housing needs indefinitely. But for now, Condon says, Corte Madera is producing more housing than the state requires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Berkeley and Corte Madera try to thread the needle between new state mandates and local interests, other cities are considering blunter instruments. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Redondo Beach placed a 10-and-a-half month-long moratorium on new mixed-use development projects. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Nils Nehrenheim, a city council member and local slow-growth activist, the ban has been in the works for years but now comes in the nick of time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thankfully, we’re starting this this month,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney’s office and the Department of Community Development are looking into how the various housing bills would affect planning decisions. The goal, Nehrenheim said, is “to learn if we can mitigate some of these issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders have also discussed pushing back against the state’s housing-production targets, though it isn’t yet clear how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to have to start having more conversations with state legislators” about adjusting those targets, said Nehrenheim. “We’re all very concerned about the loss of local control -- no matter what side of the issue you stand on in terms of development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local lawmakers often face tremendous pressure to block, stall or renegotiate unpopular projects. Soon they won’t have as much power to respond to that pressure -- but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, said Aaron Gomez, who sits on the City Council in San Luis Obispo. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decisions about land use inevitably leave some constituents unhappy. 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Many cities call it a usurpation of local authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB167\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">measure\u003c/a> will make it harder for cities to deny new housing projects if they otherwise comply with local rules, and will raise the penalty for municipalities that wrongly do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Berkeley did not officially adopt a position on either bill while lawmakers were considering them. But a local response is now in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguín said he is developing a Berkeley-specific streamlining process that would be available to developers in addition to the new state process. His alternative is still in its early stages, but the mayor hopes it will steer developers toward low- and moderate-income projects and those providing additional community benefits that are still undefined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s planning commission is also working on tighter zoning laws that would feature new density requirements and design standards while staying in tune with state law. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we set local requirements that still give the city some flexibility in shaping -- not denying -- but shaping projects, we can ensure compliance with [new laws] and still maintain some degree of control,” Arreguín said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar conversation is taking place across San Francisco Bay in Corte Madera, a small town in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the town approved a 180-unit apartment complex along Highway 101 over the vociferous objections of some community members, Vice Mayor Carla Condon said the town is looking for less obtrusive ways to expand the housing stock. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Corte Madera is one city trying to thread the needle between new state mandates and local interests.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11620075\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/CorteMadera-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corte Madera is one city trying to thread the needle between new state mandates and local interests. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One option the town is considering is to waive fees and loosen regulations on secondary dwellings, those fashioned within or near a main home. This might make it easier to convert a basement into an apartment or build a tiny house in a backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing our best to be compliant but also to try to maintain the small-town character that everybody really cherishes in this community,” Condon said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear that secondary units will accommodate the town’s housing needs indefinitely. 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