Is section 654 of the California Criminal Code applicable to two counts of assault for two gunshots which occurred within one minute of one another?

Moreover, the purpose of section 654 is " 'to insure that a defendant's punishment will be commensurate with his culpability.' " (People v. Trotter (1992) 7 Cal.App.4th 363, 367.) Appellant heightened the risk that Priscilla would experience serious injury with each separate use of a weapon. This notion also justifies the imposition of sentences on the assault counts. (See, e.g., id. at p. 368 [finding 654 did not apply to two counts of assault for two gunshots which occurred within one minute of one another; "Defendant's conduct became more egregious with each successive [gun]shot. Each shot posed a separate and distinct risk to [the victims]. To find section 654 applicable to these facts would violate the very purpose for the statute's existence."].)