the lead starts right now. allen, texas, joining the ranks of columbine, aurora, parkland, new town, another town whose name is synonymous with a mass shooting. two young sisters were just identified as victims as we re learning more about the gunman s extremist background into which authorities are looking. and new video obtained exclutively by cnn. bystanders trying to hold down the man accused of plowing his range rovers into a group of migrants. plus, just in time for summer travel, the new proposed rule to give you a refund if you re bumped from your next flight. welcome to lead. i m jake tapper. another day. another deadly mass shooting in america. over the weekend a man gunned down several people at a mall in allen, texas. police are investigating whether a gunman killed by the cop at the scene was motivated by right wing extremism. this is not a monthly occurrence in the united states. it is not a weekly occurrence in the united states. this is now happening
and we re back with our national lead. a surprising moment in the texas statehouse where two republican lawmakers crossed party lines to vote with democrats to advance a bill to the floor of the legislature that would raise the minimum age to buy semiautomatic weapons called assault-style weapons from age 18 to age 21, the age for handgun purchases but not for semiautomatic. the motion carries. a small measure, but significant perhaps. the bill can now move to the fullhouse. there is no guarantee, of course, that the republican-controlled legislature will even allow a vote on the matter. with me now is the vice chair of the select committee of
during the turmoil of that incident while they were actually going through it. i can only imagine. yeah. i cannot imagine and you said they re grappling with the why. as an elected official, as so many other elected officials are trying to think about how do we stop this from happening, right? i know back in 2020, when democrats controlled all the levers of government in virginia you ushered through universal background checks, a requirement about lost or stolen guns being reported. you limited handgun purchases. you passed a red flag law. those are a number of measures. what else needs to be done? what else can be done? well, there s a lot that needs to happen. and i think it starts with leadership of all parties, all parties involved, we as leaders to understand that these issues are not mutually exclusive.
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27th. those don t get as much attention, but they terrify people just as much. they leave just as much trauma and grief and mayhem. and here is what is so perverse. the very fear created by gruesome public displays of gun violence often serve to advance the interests of gun manufactures. there is evidence that gun sales rise after mass shootings. i saw this firsthand in the wake of the mass shooting in san bernardino in 2015 when we went the talk to a gun shop owner the day after the shooting. how has business been? normally the business increases after things of this nature. really? people, you know, my phone has been ringing off the hook this morning about handgun purchases and things of that nature. what s more, the public fear these mass shootings precipitate can be clay in the hands of demagogues as president trump himself demonstrated after san bernardino. donald j. trump himself is