Police came. My other son was in the battle cage and he is also very brave. You can see him there in that picture, the tall er of the two. We heard shots and it was clear pretty quickly there was a shooter with a high profile rifle. Steve scalise was hit in the hip he was hit, and he was down the whole time. Senator rand paul was in the batting cage when it started. I could see way in the distance, the gun sounded like an ar15, and we could not see
i kept yelling back are you friendly . We didnt know if it was another gunman or if it was return fire. And the Capital Policeman put his head around the dugout and i could tell it was them returning fire. It was a very chaotic situation, and it lasted for at least ten minutes and it just kept going on and on. Some estimated over 50 shots. I stood up up in the dugout trying to get a sense of where the gunman was. He walked around first base outside of the fence. And he got into the dugout. And we realized we were not safe there. Could you se
mental health concerns. reporter: minutes after gunfire erupted after the mall in allen, texas, it was clear that the scene was a mass casualty event. we have multiple upon multiple deaths. the suspect sdrodoes have an rifle. okay. reporter: mauricio garcia was killed by a police officer at the scene. a law enforcement source tells cnn the 33-year-old gunman served three months in the u.s. army and did not complete basic training and was removed because of mental health concerns. despite this, texas state records show garcia was approved to work as a commissioned security guard and even received firearms training. witnesses say garcia acted calmly as he carried out the attack. he s kind of in a deliberate assault type of mood. reporter: in 2019 texas governor greg abbott created a state domestic terrific task force after the el paso walmart
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sheriff s office. in most of these mass shootings and school shootings, it has been an assault type of weapon. putting that one aside for a second, the issue of universal background checks, and 17 states have enacted the laws. there has been more progress on the state level than at the federal level. there has been and my state of california has been great. if we don t have universal standards, it is, you know, it is really not effective to be frank. and it can t be. the weapons can be transported across statelin lines. i applaud states like virginia,
i was speaking with congressman anthony brown a little bit earlier. he cautions until we know what the situation is we have to be careful not to speculate too much and not too move too far ahead. but senator, americans regardless of what the motive is, the motive is always a little bit different. the fact that it is unbelievable the list that was give to me at 3:00 this afternoon of mass shootings this year in america. it reads like a joke. because it can t be serious that there have been that many mass shootings in america. at some point we do have to think about this as a nation. parkland has forced us to do some of it. what else do we do? we know that in this country, the united states, we are much more likely to be victims of gun violence than in the other industrial nations of the world. you are absolutely right. we have got to understand this. there is sensible things we can do for gun safety that we should have done long before now, including background checks and getting ri