Mayor Adams pleads with NYC parents to check their kids for guns

Key Facts

• Mayor Adams wants New York City parents to help him stem the tide of handguns showing up in city schools.
• Standing next to a table with three guns that were found in students’ backpacks, Adams urged families on Wednesday to talk to their kids — and search their bookbags and social media accounts if necessary — to make sure they’re not carrying firearms.
• “We want to mobilize parents.
• We want to ask parents to join us in this partnership of saving our children,” Adams said at NYPD Headquarters, while pictures of guns confiscated in city schools flashed on a screen behind him.

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