(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Mass shootings are leading lawmakers to take another look at drones. Can they make us safer? Do they infringe on our privacy? While you could answer Yes and Yes, State Senator Linda Holmes said the current drone laws are ten years old.
Since then, a gunman killed six people and wounded six more at the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora.
“Following that mass shooting in 2019,” Holmes said, “The Aurora Police Department’s drone team began to carefully review how other states use drones to support law enforcement operations and to make drones more available to law enforcement to support preventive and proactive responses to special events.”
“We need to keep everybody safe no matter who you are," said State Senator Julie Morrison, who marched in the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, where a rooftop gunman killed seven people and wounded 48 others.
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