in canada. i am rosemary church, more than 170 storms were reported across the united states on tuesday. bringing tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds. heavy rain caused flooding in houston texas, more than 7 million people are under flood watches in the southeast of the state with more thunderstorms expected today. a flash flood warning remains in effect for parts of missouri as well and we are learning more about the gunman who killed eight people at an outlet mall in allen texas. authorities say that he had eight weapons with him, all legally obtained. the motive still remains unclear. cnn s josh campbell has more. why did you do this? the big question, is we don t know. law enforcement, revealing new details today about the investigation into the gunmen who opened fire at a texas outlet mall. saying that he had no prior criminal history and was not on
violent deaths is heart breaking i m the father of four young children and my heart breaks when we have tragedies like we did in allen texas last week or in tennessee. but the last thing we need to do to promote safety is key surprising law abiding citizens of their second amendment rights to protect themselves. we re in office we have to resist the urge every time something bad happens to act. we can t lose sight of the fact every time government acts the shrugs is worse than the problem. the number one thank god our founders enshrined the second amendment in the bill of rights of the constitution. laura: i guess they re arguing that this maurcio garcia who killed the people in allen texas, this hideous act of evil, that he could have been prevented from buying those weapons on a red flag law, under
their own big government leftist ends. they re saying the same things the day after the tragedy as they were the day before but it s disgusting and reprehensible that they re exploiting this tragedy to exploit it to their ends. myself and other republicans in texas are going to stop it. laura: i don t dropped the people limiting our first amendment rights to make decisions about who would be eligible to buy a weapon if that person has not been convicted of a felony, et cetera. so is that your concern about the red flag laws that they would scour any social media for any like america-first comments and that would be considered, you know, dangerous? what s your beef with that? absolutely, laura. we know that it would be abused. we believe in due process, we believe in innocence until proven guilty. we will not tolerate a furtherance of red flawing in texas it shouldn t happen in tennessee and we have to protect americans second amendment