ayman wilkie dean and new york, we are continuing to follow the tragedy out of allen, texas this hour. police reports are at an outlet mall just north of dallas. and moments ago, local officials made a very brief statement saying a police officer and an unrelated call at that mall heard shots ring out at about 3:36 pm local time. officials are confirming there are casualties, they have not yet released the exact numbers on those dead, or injured. police also say they s believe the suspect has acted alone. they re saying they plan to hold another press conference in about two hours from now. as you can imagine, lots of questions. we are going to bring you more updates the money they come into our newsroom. a short time ago, governor greg abbott issued his statement writing in part, quote, our hearts are with the people of allen, texas. tonight, during this unspeakable tragedy. we are going to, as we mentioned, bring you all the information that we get as it happens. joining
Take a suspect down with a relative short amount of time. but it s certainly supports the fact that we really need to do something in this country about the proliferation of guns and how we ve allowed these incidents of massive shooting incidents to occur. law enforcement was preliminarily determined the pet was resolved. there was a lot of follow-up in terms of any information about the shooter and motive looking for any additional casualties that may have not been located yet. we just want to take a quick pause to bring it into the conversation, roland peters, states maybe terrors, it s troubling to have you back on the show so frequently about this particular issue. you and i were speaking about
Our reality unless, and until the u.s. changes its relationship with guns, and our lawmakers find the answer to the american people, not the gun lobby. our hearts go out to the victims and families of yet another mass shooting, and for me i think what stood out to me was the point that i was trying to get to earlier. with frank and clinton and the chief. that is the american people are on one side of the divide on the right side of the divide, and then the politicians they elect are on the wrong side of the divide. and i can t think of how this country can be a functioning democracy when you have the will of the people not reflected in the laws that they want passed. yeah. i think that we should be really clear that when we talk about politicians, it is not
Amount of gun violence that we ve seen in any western developed democracy. so it defies any logic that i m looking at five or six statements from republican politicians all to come out within the next 90 minutes of a mass shooting, and none of them, barely, i haven t seen the word mentioned in any single statement that has come out of a republican official in the last nine minutes. they talked about drugs, mental health, drug rehab said to her here, it s a lot of prayers, but i have not seen one mention of the word gun. right. we ve had close to 200 mass shootings this year. gun violence is the number one killer in death. number one killer of teens in our country. we have unfettered access to guns, compounded by triggered by aggression and hate. also what you re not seeing in those tweets are republicans
Our nation is plagued with mental illness, drug addiction, homelessness, and out of control crime. possibly all true, but absent from her statement anything to do with the white word gun. amen, brother. those kinds of statements are taking the can down the road, and they are not steeped in reality. i am a legislator from california, we have some of the strictest gun reform laws on the books. it does not matter if it does not come with it a federal national counterpart. because we can still see pick up the phone and have guns, have the mailed to you if you so desire. i will say, when i m in a very deep blue sea and constituents far and wide i m i willing to work bipartisanly to work with issues that they care about, like gun violence reform, that s exactly what i did. i joined on to the gun prevention gun violence prevention