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Nina Ahmad: “We need mental health care for people to understand you…”

Featuring: Nina Ahmad, Democratic | Philadelphia City Council At-large | Pennsylvania

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Studio C70 - Nina Ahmad interviewed by Freire students

Published | Video Starts at 04:16

How are we having people go into stores and be a straw purchaser and buying many guns and then putting them out the street? We need to stop it at the source. That's one piece. The other piece is, as I said, We need mental health care for people to understand you don't need to settle a beef with a gun. If you have this street versus that street, having a fight and you're bringing a gun to it, why do you feel the need to do that? (04:16–04:22)

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Asserts the necessity of mental health care to prevent gun violence.

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