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Democratic NYC Mayoral Primary Winner Eric Adams: "Our crisis in America is not an assault weapons crisis. Our crisis is a handgun crisis."
Twitter ^ | 07/08/21

Posted on 07/08/2021 9:46:29 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Democratic NYC Mayoral Primary Winner Eric Adams: "Our crisis in America is not an assault weapons crisis. Our crisis is a handgun crisis."

 

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1413157030974607361


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KEYWORDS: crisis; defundthepolice; ericadams; handguns; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc
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To: Enlightened1

I also notice that when a criminal shoots a person: it’s a gun problem. When a cop shoots a criminal: it’s a person/cop problem.


21 posted on 07/08/2021 10:00:13 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Enlightened1

The “crisis” is that criminals are running rough shod over the politicians, not handguns. Handguns have never lEapt off a table, or lut of their holsters, jumped in cars, and gone on shooting rampages on their own. Guns are not the problem, criminals are the problem!

As someone said,, You don’t stop drunk driving by taking the right to drive away from all law abiding people


22 posted on 07/08/2021 10:00:59 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Enlightened1

Funny how the media finds you credible when you follow the playbook.


23 posted on 07/08/2021 10:04:05 AM PDT by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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To: Enlightened1

its a crisis among black families and culture.


24 posted on 07/08/2021 10:04:06 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Flick Lives

There’s a gang crisis, a drug culture crisis and a violent black thug crisis. When they have dealt with those things then guns of any kind won’t be an issue. Of course, that means they’ve have to hold people responsible, which so far they refuse to do.


25 posted on 07/08/2021 10:04:28 AM PDT by Bayan
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To: econjack

In a large majority of murders by handgun, the police KNOW the person who pulled the trigger, if only by prior acquaintance in earlier brushes with the law. But the LEOs can do nothing, as they are constrained by prosecuting attorneys that have “compassion” for the disadvantaged youth, and use their “prosecutorial discretion” to selectively turn these same transgressors loose again and again, often before the arresting officer has completed the paperwork.

Mere words in a thick tome outlining what is legal and illegal mean nothing unless there is a will to apply the letter and spirit of the law.


26 posted on 07/08/2021 10:04:53 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Cows don't give milk. You have to work for it.)
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To: Enlightened1
Don’t ever forget that the current leftist fad of opposing policing, decriminalizing everything, eliminating cash bail, and letting everyone out of prison is designed to address their long-running inability to explain why blacks commit the vast majority of crime, especially violent crime. They’re trying to ensure that crime statistics going forward will no longer show this racial disparity in criminality, by simply doing everything they can to prevent black criminals from being caught and their crimes documented.

“Nothing to see here.”

27 posted on 07/08/2021 10:05:38 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“...they can go into Neiman Marcus and loot the heck out of everything ..”

They are just avid shoppers.


28 posted on 07/08/2021 10:05:53 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Enlightened1

We note the narrative change. Thanks for keeping up.


29 posted on 07/08/2021 10:06:33 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“If they can get any sort of ban on a rifle, rest assured they will be back for the handguns.”

It was a small, .22 handgun that killed Senator Robert Kennedy.

Why would anyone need a gun that can be used in a crime like that?


30 posted on 07/08/2021 10:07:46 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Enlightened1

No. We have a black thug culture and feral negro crisis.


31 posted on 07/08/2021 10:07:48 AM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: MileHi

What does this moron think, that handguns are using Uber to get around.


32 posted on 07/08/2021 10:08:26 AM PDT by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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To: Brilliant

“Enforce the gun laws already on the books..”

No...take them off the books, most of them are bull shit.


33 posted on 07/08/2021 10:09:48 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Enlightened1

No, the crisis is a lack of morals. Simple thought exercise: which is better for society:

When the criminal fears the citizen
or
when the citizen fears the criminal


34 posted on 07/08/2021 10:10:14 AM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: Enlightened1

In some countries they selectively ban firearms and it looks like a political game here of incrementalism.

Pistols are the problem now then they grab them round them up because so many people use rifles for hunting it isn’t the best route to total gun control.


35 posted on 07/08/2021 10:10:29 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Enlightened1

The crisis is the American Negro culture and the American white liberals.


36 posted on 07/08/2021 10:10:39 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: qaz123

You can hardly ever trust a liberal no matter how straightforward or sound that they may sound at time. There is usually always a moral defect in personalities that WILL surface at one point or another, usually after they bet elected and their bs doesn’t need to be spewed anymore to trick people into voting for them, it always does. The liberal agenda is so anti-moral in nature, that to be a Democrat, one almkst always must have a degree of moral bankrupt-ness to them in order to support the filthy liberal party, even a little bit.

Dershowitz sounds very sound and reasonable at times, but then he goes and votes for Biden knowing how corrupt the man and his family truly is.

Heck, even Bill mahar (sp?) Can sound perfectly reasonable at times on certain issues, but then predictably, he goes way off the deep end.


37 posted on 07/08/2021 10:10:53 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Enlightened1

If you ask a person that is still alive after being shot by a gun, any gun, he’ll tell you he was assaulted. So laws that identify assault whether it be with a weapon or hands that are just as capable of killing as the others, can not identify assault with a weapon as any weapon is capable. So the semantics overplay their own definition.

And this is what politicians fail to recognize in their efforts to create a boogeyman to scare the public. It’s not the weapon, it’s the intent. Example: “dirty bomb” as it has been referred to by the media is a terrorist weapon. It is not an “atomic” bomb. The dirty bomb is a conventional weapon using conventional explosives (such as dynamite or TNT) to disperse or spread radioactive material (among other things). The dangerous part of the weapon is the explosive itself, not the radioactivity that would be spread. The intent of the weapon is to cause damage by the explosion and spread fear and panic by the presence of radioactivity. First of all, if can be made with radioactive particles, it can spread it to a limited area and the health effects of radiation tend to be directly proportional to radiation dose. In other words, the higher the radiation dose, the higher the risk of injury. And that risk can produce radioactive poisoning and death if not treated. But “the media” calls this a terrorist weapon, not an assault weapon. So is a gun or a rock. It’s all word twisting for fear mongering. I wouldn’t vote for this chicken little for dog catcher.

wy69


38 posted on 07/08/2021 10:12:12 AM PDT by whitney69 (uin )
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To: Enlightened1
Right...it's the guns that cause the shootings.

Spoons made me fat.

How many criminals in New York City, who committed a crime with a firearm, were released before serving even half of their sentence?

How many criminals in New York City, who committed a crime with a firearm, committed a second crime with a firearm while on parole for the first crime?

How many criminals in New York City, who committed a crime with a firearm, were released after the charges were reduced to a misdemeanor?

39 posted on 07/08/2021 10:18:23 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Enlightened1

The crisis in America is the stupid people that walk among us.


40 posted on 07/08/2021 10:18:51 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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