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The suspect in the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the San Francisco Bay Area sexually abused a former girlfriend, she said in a new interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.

The newspaper did not name the woman, since she alleged sexual assault by Samuel James Cassidy, whom she says she met on Match.com in 2008 and dated for about six months.

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, a former official in Donald Trump's administration took Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to task for advocating armed violence against social media companies and their employees during a speech the Florida lawmaker gave this past week.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, Shermichael Singleton -- who was fired by Trump for critical comments he made about the former president -- said, as a gun owner, Gaetz's comments were dangerous in a country already swamped with mass shootings.

A Fox News guest speculated that mass shootings had increased in the United States because criminals "probably got vaccinated."

Retired NYPD detective Pat Brosnan made the remarks on Fox News following a mass shooting in San Jose that left at least eight people dead. The remarks were shared on Twitter by Justin Baragona.

Eight people were killed in Wednesday morning's mass shooting at a San Jose, California light rail yard. There were also multiple people injured, according to ABC 7 News.

The suspected shooter, who was a Valley Transportation Authority employee, according to Santa Clara County Sheriff's Deputy Russell Davis, is also dead, KTVU reports.

Multiple people are reportedly dead in a mass shooting at a San Jose, California light rail station, according to The Mercury News, but few other news sources have confirmed that.

KTVU's James Torrez also reports "Multiple people are dead."

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A bill to allow the permitless carrying of handguns in Texas is on the brink of reaching Gov. Greg Abbott's desk after the state House and Senate reached a compromise on the bill.

A video shared on social media shows a white man shouting slurs and driving away from a police officer who approached his vehicle.

The incident was said to have occurred in Canada on Tuesday. Video was later shared on Twitter.

In a blunt opinion piece from the Washington Post editorial board, the National Rifle Association was scorched for decades of corruption and self-dealing, saying that gun advocacy group is finally facing a "reckoning."

With a federal judge tossing out the NRA's bankruptcy case after "finding that the nation's largest gun rights groups had filed the case not for legitimate financial reasons but to gain an unfair litigation advantage," the Post's editors applauded the move.

An apparent dispute between members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang has left three men dead and one man in jail on federal gun charges.

"A suspected white supremacist is facing charges after allegedly ditching a bullet-riddled car containing three dead men in the parking lot of an Albuquerque hospital this week," The Daily Beast reported Saturday. "Richard Kuykendall, a 41-year-old with an "apparent association" with the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, was charged Friday with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition for his role in the Wednesday triple homicide, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for New Mexico."

According to KSEE, a man associated with a white supremacist gang in Fresno, California has been charged with murder.

"40-year-old Brandon Engelman from Coarsegold is charged with shooting and killing 56-year-old Pacer Hampton, of Fresno, last month. It was the county's first homicide," reported AJ Kato. "On April 13, Hampton was found in his crashed car on Olive Avenue. He had been shot to death. Detectives received surveillance video from neighbors and identified a white Chevrolet Tahoe as a vehicle of interest. Once the photo was released to the public, Mims said tips pointed them to Engelman."

Orlando Police Lt. Diego Toruno on Monday updated reporters following fatal shooting at a United States Citizenship and Immigration Service Building.

Toruno said a woman and a man were walking into the building shortly before 10 a.m. when a gunman in a car opened fired. The woman was able to flee, but the man was shot and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Alabama was the scene of two shootings on Saturday afternoon.

"Two police officers were shot Saturday afternoon while investigating a scene in Montgomery. Their injuries are believed to be non-life-threatening," AL.com reported.

There is a heavy police presence in Manhattan following a shooting in Times Square.

"A mother and her 3-year-old daughter were shot Saturday evening in Times Square, police sources told The Post. The gunfire erupted just before 5 p.m. at West 44th Street and Seventh Avenue," the NY Post reports. "The mother was struck in the leg and the child was hit in the upper torso, law enforcement sources said."