Police are begging lawmakers to stop relaxing gun laws. Charlotte shows why.
by Patrik Jonsson
May 01, 2024
3 minutes
From New York to Texas to Alabama, law enforcement officials have warned for years that relaxing gun laws would lead to more violence toward police. The fatal shooting of a local police officer and three members of a fugitive task force in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday seems to bear those fears out.
The task force including U.S. Marshals was trying to arrest a man for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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