CA Attorney General Bonta visits Central California to address gun violence prevention

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Thousands of lives gone excessively soon owed to weapon unit crossed the state.

Attorney General Rob Bonta says each beingness means something, which is wherefore helium held a roundtable -- hosted by Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission, to sermon much ways to code the ongoing epidemic.

"Our weapon decease complaint successful California is 40 percent little than the nationalist average, implicit the people of 30 years we became 1 of the states with the highest weapon decease rates, to 1 of the states with the lowest," said California Attorney General, Rob Bonta.

The EOC's -- Advance Peace Fresno Program director, Aaron Foster, is conscionable 1 of those radical impacted by the shooting decease of a loved one.

"Yesterday was the day of my girl being killed and 4 days earlier that was my son," said Foster.

Foster is not alone.

The Fresno County Sheriff's bureau has investigated 5 homicides truthful acold this year, successful 3 -- a weapon was used.

Last year, determination were 20 homicides, and a weapon was utilized successful 11 cases.

Meanwhile, successful the metropolis of Fresno, wide shootings are down.

So acold this twelvemonth determination are 101 shootings, past twelvemonth determination were 170, and successful 2022 -- determination were 201 shootings.

Bonta says that alteration is what helium wants to capitalize on. Thursday's treatment with assemblage organizations marked his 4th crossed the state.

He says the meetings assistance him larn that the radical impacted and healed from weapon unit are the champion radical to assistance halt it.

"Those folks request backing to bash their work, and are deserving of it, and are accomplishing what we privation successful our communities -- safer communities, weapon unit prevented, lives saved," said Bonta.

For Foster, that wealth is important successful his enactment with Advance Peace and getting radical to enactment their guns down.

"They don't settee disputes with gun's they person alternative's and determination are many, we privation to person a weapon not adjacent beryllium a portion of a solution," said Foster.

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