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Eric Adams: “We took 20,800 guns off our streets, almost 1500 just this…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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New York City Podcast with Mayor Eric Adams on Migrant Crisis, Public Safety, and Political Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 1:16:34

And you can call me whatever you want. I'm not going to allow them to sleep on the street. You're not going to tell me that we should have guns in our community. We took 20,800 guns off our streets, almost 1500 just this year alone. And we're seeing the results of that. And so you have to go into government not saying, okay, let me just say the right things. (1:16:34–1:16:40)

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