Eric Adams: “If I didn't take those 25,000 guns off the street.”

“If I don't improve education. You know what I say? If you don't educate, you incarcerate. I had to get it right. If I didn't take those 25,000 guns off the street. Those are real victims. And so you want to get it right. And I don't think there has been a man, history, probably back to LaGuardia, that spent so much time on the ground.” (01:47–01:51)

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