checks to the private sale of guns to requiring the registration of assault-style weapons, reported The Christian Science Monitor.

Though he has promised to “enact the toughest assault-weapon ban in the nation,” the governor emphasized on Tuesday he is “not anti-gun.”

“I own a gun,” he said to CNN. “But criminals should not have guns.”

Violence before the West Indian Day parade has come to be a wearily familiar part of the events, according to The Associated Press. A man was shot dead and several wounded last year when a former convict opened fire into the crowd. The year before, a 1-year-old boy was killed sitting in his stroller.

This year was no different. A man was fatally stabbed by Grand Army Plaza near the parade, reports the AP.

And the crossfire that"A bill in California that would mandate schools to allow boys to use girls’ restrooms and vice versa if they identified with the opposite gender has been approved by the state’s Assembly Education Committee. AB 1266, also known as the ‘Bathroom Bill,’ would serve as an amendment to the Education Code and would require all schools in the state to comply with its mandates. ‘A pupil shall be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs, activities, and facilities, including athletic teams and competitions, consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records,’ the legislation reads. It was approved to move forward in the legislature by a vote of 5-2 on Wednesday. It will likely now advance to the full Assembly, House