NYC Mayor Eric Adams blames both Democrats, Republicans for gun violence

Mayor Eric Adams blasted "the Far Left and the Far Proper" for inflicting gun violence.
William Miller

Mayor Eric Adams insisted Saturday that there’s no “one-bullet” answer to decreasing the metropolis’s rising gun violence, laying blame at radicals on each side of the political aisle for the shootings surge.

“There are such a lot of rivers that now we have to dam that’s feeding the ocean of violence, significantly gun violence in our metropolis,” mentioned Adams, after becoming a member of tons of who participated within the “March for Our Lives” rally throughout the Brooklyn Bridge.

“However right here’s the true downside that lots of people at the moment are dealing with: the Far Left and the Far Proper, by them capturing at one another, the victims are impacting our complete metropolis.

“The Far Left is saying it’s alright for people who find themselves harmful to remain on the streets with weapons. The Far Proper is saying let’s get as many weapons within the fingers as doable. These two entities are inflicting People and New Yorkers to be unsafe.”

Adams and the protesters have been amongst hundreds who demonstrated in related marches within the District of Columbia and different elements of America on Saturday. They have been making a renewed push for gun management measures by Congress following current mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, in addition to others, together with the 2018 capturing at a Parkland, Florida highschool.

Demonstrators arrange a memorial for the 21 victims of the Uvalde faculty capturing in Zuccotti Park, Manhattan.

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In DC, demonstrators rallied on Nationwide Mall, together with its mayor, Muriel Bowser, who declared, “Sufficient is sufficient.”

Throughout that occasion, a counter-protester was detained by authorities after leaping a barricade in a failed bid to disrupt the rally.

President Biden, who was in California when the Washington DC rally started, tweeted a message calling on Congress to take stronger measures towards weapons. He mentioned this could embrace banning “assault weapons and excessive capability journal,” strengthening background checks and repealing “gun producers’ immunity from legal responsibility.”

Mayor Eric Adams and Lawyer Basic Letitia James stroll with demonstrators at a “March for Our Lives” rally over the Brooklyn Bridge.

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“We will’t fail the American folks once more, he tweeted.

With Publish wires.