NYC mayoral candidate Adams calls out DC Dems for 'misplaced' focus on assault weapons
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Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams wants to decrease gun violence, but he believes Democrats are going about it the wrong way on a national level.
"I believe those priorities, they really were misplaced and it's almost insulting what we have witnessed over the last few years. Many of our presidents, they saw these numbers, they knew that the inner cities in particular, where Black, Brown, and poor people live, they knew they were dealing with this real crisis," Adams said, citing Atlanta, the South Side of Chicago and the Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn as examples. "It is extremely important that just as we became energetic after we saw mass shootings with assault rifles in the suburban parts of our country – which we should have – we should have also focused on the handgun," Adams continued. "The numbers of those who are killed with handguns are astronomical and if we don't start having real federal legislation matched with states and cities we're never going to get this crisis under control."More Related News