The Gilroy Garlic Festival ended very badly this year. The festival site was fenced, and there were metal detectors at the gates. But a shooter got in by cutting the fence, and reportedly used a semiautomatic rifle to inflict death to 3 people (including a 6-year-old boy) and injury to 15 others. Police arrived and killed the shooter. Elected officials and business leaders were all tweeting or talking about the crime on Sunday. For example Senator Kamala Harris remarked, Our country has a gun violence epidemic that we cannot tolerate."