Eight children and two women were shot in Shreveport, Louisiana on April 19 in a domestic violence incident; the gunman was killed by police. The core facts are confirmed by AP, NBC, NYT, and The Guardian. Newsom's framing pivots immediately to NRA lobbying without acknowledging the perpetrator's mental health crisis or the domestic violence context that multiple outlets emphasized — this is politically motivated commentary on a real tragedy, not a mischaracterization of the event itself.