Newsom held an emergency meeting Monday in Sacramento with leading school, health and safety officials following deadly mass shootings in Gilroy, Calif., El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio over the past two weeks that killed more than 30.
"These shootings overwhelmingly — almost exclusively — are males, boys, men. I do think that is missing in the national conversation," Newsom said, according to Politico. "I think that goes deep to the issue of how we raise our boys to be men, goes deeply to values that we tend to hold dear — power, dominance, aggression, over empathy, care and collaboration."
"I want to just introduce that into this debate as we move more tactically to address the issue of early childhood trauma, address the issues of stresses that become mental health issues, that become access to weapons. All of those things," Newsom said.
