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It's Sunday August 4th. I'm Major Garrett and this is Face the Nation.

29 people are dead following two mass shootings in less than 14 hours and Americans

find themselves asking again the painful questions why what can be done? What is going wrong?

The first mass shooting occurred in El Paso, Texas, a gunman killed 20 and injured 26 at a busy shopping center.

We will have the latest from El Paso and more about what motivated

a massacre authorities say appears to be a hate crime.

Thoughts like this, actions like this, crimes like this, are not who or what Texas is and will not be accepted

here.

The second mass shooting occurred overnight in Dayton, Ohio, nine are dead plus the gunman.

The shooting took place in a popular Dayton Entertainment District.

Police were patrolling as usual

and neutralize the shooter in less than one minute.

Dayton, Mayor Nan Whaley.

Clearly the question has to be raised. Why does Dayton have to be the 250th mass

shooting in America? We will get the latest from Ohio Democratic

Senator Sherry Brown. Democratic presidential candidate Beto Orrick

canceled his campaign events to head home to El Paso.

I am incredibly saddened and it is very hard to think about this.

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