Brandon Bell/Getty Images, FILE(ALLEN, Texas) Just one day after the most recent mass shooting in the United States this time at an outdoor mall in Allen, Texas Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blamed the incident on mental health issues as he s done with previous mass shootings in the state.
Abbott, a Republican, said addressing mental health not tightening gun laws can prevent shootings such as the one on Saturday, in which eight people were killed and seven injured before the suspect was fatally shot by police, Abbott said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
Law enforcement sources told ABC News the alleged gunman was in the U.S. Army in 2008 but was "removed due to mental health concerns." Investigators have found he also may have gravitated toward right-wing extremist ideology, including neo-Nazi sympathies, the sources told ABC News.
"What we ve seen across the United States over the past year or two … is an increased number of shootings in both re