united states and all around the are learning more about the victims and the gunman in the mass shooting in allen, texas, including possible ties he may have had to the far right. a tragedy as well in brownsville. what we know about a car crash that killed eight outside a migrant center near the mexican border. plus, deadly ethnic clashes in northeastern india. we re live in new delhi with a look at what s fueling that violence. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. we begin in allen, texas, where residents are mourning the eight people killed in a mass shooting on saturday. many have been honoring the victims by placing flowers on this makeshift memorial. it was set up at the outlet mall where the gunman fired on crowds of shoppers. the victims were also remembered at this church vigil on sunday. several people there delivered remarks, including the mayor-elect who called for prayers and expressed condolences for ev
right-wing, neo-nazi hate organizations. every day somebody has a different reason. the problem is it s this combination of aid and hopelessness and easy access to guns, right? there are a lot of people in this country there are more guns than people. for every 100 or so people, there are about 120 guns. that s by far the most in the world, right? so not everybody should have a gun. that s where our focus is. our focus is on the fact that most people in this country agree, gun owners and non-gun owners really do agree that before you get a gun, you should pass a background check. you should have a red flag law if you re a danger to yourself or others. there are things we could do to prevent many of these, not all of them, but many of these from happening, and we re not doing them. well, let s look at that. what commonsense gun controls and legislation could have stooped this mass shooting? and what more needs to be done
we want america to stand for, immigration lives. it is important vital debate and whether the statue of liberty means anything anymore. whether or not my grandparents would have been allowed into the united states under policies and protocols. that s an important debate and discussions. the language and rhetoric you use to have that debate is very, very important and so what we need to do is we are spending a lot of time debating whether the president or his staff is racist or his policies are racist. what i look at is the end result and the residence that the rhetoric is having with the unstable dangerous groups. that evidence is irrefutable. you look at the el paso shooter or white hate organizations or white supre supremacist organizations, they are regurgitating the same rhetoric. i am focused on bad guys who are
not even close. and the president continually allows his words to be misappropriated by white nationalists like those you are describing and other hate organizations. he allows his words to fuel some of their activities. understand this very clearly, wolf, hate speech begets hate crimes. we need to understand that words matter in this country, and perhaps no one s words matter more than the president of the united states. so when he tweets and when he speaks in these divisive ways, it tears us apart and it gives these other individuals, it gives these groups sort of a permission slip to go forward. i think there s another group here that also have to be condemned, and that is people who remain silent in the face of this type of hateful rhetoric coming from the president, whether they re people in his own party or others. we all have a responsibility to stand up and speak up and speak