President Biden plans to meet with Mayor Adams in New York City next week to discuss the steady rise in gun violence across the five boroughs. The visit comes after Adams had been pressing the federal government for help in battling gun violence.
next week in New York City to discuss how the federal government and New York City can work together to end the scourge of gun violence on our streets.Adams, a centrist Democrat, has been urging the federal government to provide more support in fighting the rising tide of gun violence in New York City. On Monday, he released a 15-page plan that outlined steps in reducing violent crime in the wake of the NYPD fatalities. The alleged perpetrator, Lashawn McNeil, was also killed.
The deaths came amid multiple violent episodes across New York City that have rattled New Yorkers. They include the fatal shooting of a Burger King employee in Manhattan during an armed robbery, the shooting of a baby grazed by a bullet, and a woman pushed to her death at the Times Square subway station.
In the plan, the Adams administration recommends Congress pass universal background checks for gun purchases, ban assault weapons, and pass laws that make gun trafficking a federal crime. Adams also seeks to strengthen working relationships between the NYPD, FBI, and ATF in stemming the “Iron Pipeline” gun route along the I-95. Adams’ plan also seeks more federal funds to hire police officers, expand mental health services, and catch up with the backlog of gun cases that require DNA analysis.
“We have normalized the carrying of guns in our city, our state, and in some cases our country,” Adams said. “We have no longer made it taboo to do so.” The rise in gun violence across the city is part of a national trend that experts say was driven by the pandemic. Biden has attempted to address gun violence across major cities through the Build Back Better Act, a social spending bill package where $5 billion has been set aside for cure violence programs. The bill, however, has stalled in the U.S. Senate.and the United Nations General Assembly. Both took place last September.
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