Zellnor Myrie: “We choose not to give our kids alternatives to the streets.”

“Like you, like many of us here. And instead of using every single tool at our disposal to end it, we choose not to fund after school programs. We choose not to give our kids alternatives to the streets. We choose to let illegal guns flow. Not from Brooklyn, not from the Bronx, not from Queens, not from Harlem. These are guns from out of state.” (01:52–01:59)

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