DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — After a shooting in Minnesota ended with two students, ages 8-years-old and 10-years-old, killed and 17 others injured, conversations around gun violence are erupting. Here in North Carolina, Durham County Sheriff Clarence Birkhead said lawmakers need to do more to protect kids in classrooms.

“We are experiencing unprecedented gun violence, so we have to be proactive in addressing these issues,” Sheriff Birkhead said.

He says there are a few things the legislature has done recently that actually impede law enforcement’s ability to get guns off the streets or out of the hands of dangerous people.

“It started a little over two years ago when the legislators here in North Carolina repealed the pistol permit process that has always run through the office of the Sheriff

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