A Half Moon Bay community leader is returning home after attending a White House gun violence prevention summit where President Joe Biden signed an executive order targeting untraceable 3D-printed guns and machine gun conversion kits.
The move comes nearly two years after a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay that left seven dead and one other severely injured. The massacre brought the community together and put a spotlight on gun violence.
“It’s been such a heartbreak,” said Dr. Belinda Hernandez Arriaga, who was invited by the president to attend the White House event. “It takes a long time for wounds to heal.”
Arriaga is also the founder of Ayudando Latinos A Soñar or ALAS, which was instrumental in bringing support nd comfort to the farmworker families impacted by the Half Moon Bay mass shooting.
“This is a great move by the president,” Arriaga said of Biden signing the executive order. “Something needs to be done. This can’t happen in another community again.”
Arriaga has been a …