Fargo Police said in a statement on Saturday that the two injured men remain in critical condition and the attacker was reportedly killed in the violent incident the day before.
“It’s very difficult for all of us,” local police spokesman Gregg Schildberger said.
The identity of the agents, the suspect or a civilian who was also injured has not yet been released.
On Friday, a gunman injured five people while exiting a funeral service in Bladensburg, Maryland, near the District of Columbia, the nation’s capital.
A little over half the year has passed and there are already some 380 mass shootings across the United States, an epidemic that President Joe Biden is calling for to end, but whose tortuous path has strong interests standing in the way.
Biden on July 4 lamented “a spate of tragic and senseless shootings across the United States” on days when they should be celebrating and said he prays “for the day our communities will be free” from the scourge.
However, one of the promises already made by his eventual Republican rival in the 2024 election goes in the opposite direction.
Former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) expected that when he returned to the White House he would accept “Biden’s executive order directing the federal government to target the firearms industry” and tear it up and throw it away “first thing.” Day “.
During the 2023 Leadership Forum of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action in April, the mogul vowed not to violate citizens’ Second Amendment rights.
He also pledged that he would urge Congress to authorize reciprocity on the issue of concealed carrying of firearms.
The United States is the only country in the world where more firearms are owned by civilians than residents; Homicides using these devices are 25.2 times higher and there are more mass shootings.
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