Eric Adams Asked About Carrying His Gun After Trump Shooting: 'Has That Re-Entered Your Mindset?'
NYC Mayor Eric Adams (D-NY) was asked about whether he would consider carrying a firearm after former President Trump was shot at a campaign rally on Saturday.
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00:00Adams, I have a question. If there have been any threats to any local Trump-owned properties in the city, and also, when you were running, you were talking about carrying a gun. Has that re-entered your mindset again?
00:16Well, first, there has not been any threats, known threats, to the property. And the intelligence division, Commissioner Weiner, would give a briefing to let any incoming—you get a lot of incoming that's taking place over and over again.
00:36And as I said on the campaign trail, as a former police officer, I'm licensed to carry a weapon. And if it ever reaches that level that I believe I have to, then I will do so.
00:48I have a good team, a security team right now. They're doing their job, and I have a lot of confidence in them. I don't feel the need to do so. And so there's not a purpose.
00:59But I think that's something you said, Councilman, that's important that I hope people didn't miss, that these algorithms and these stories play on the most extreme level of us.
01:13The more volatile you are and the more hate you put out, the more likes you get, the more it feeds into the darkness of us.
01:22All of us, we have the good lion and the bad lion in us. Right now we feed the bad lion all the time. I think it's time to feed the good lion.