The tragic and fatal shooting Sunday at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin touched Sikhs all over the world, especially in the Bay Area, where there are at least 50,000 members of that faith community.
On Sunday, members gathered at the San Jose Sikh temple, also known as a gurdwara, or house of the guru, where a relative of a Silicon Valley congregant had been injured at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee.
"Somehow we need to take care of (people's) health issues and (do more with ) gun control," said Bob Dhillon, the lay leader at the San Jose temple on Murillo Avenue, the country's largest and most expensive Sikh temple.
In that shooting, six victims were killed at their temple, and the gunman - identified as Wade Michael Page, 40 - was fatally shot in a battle with police. Three others were critically injured.
On Monday, authorities told NBC News that Wade bought a pistol within the last week, and was the former leader of a neo-Nazi group called End Apathy, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
