{"id":23092,"date":"2020-12-22T12:16:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=23092"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:16:52","slug":"good-thing-hes-backtracked-on-carrying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=23092","title":{"rendered":"Good thing he&#8217;s backtracked on carrying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I don&#8217;t care who chooses to exercise their 2A rights to carry. There are exceptions, however.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gothamgazette.com\/city\/10012-eric-adams-strengths-weaknesses-2021-run-nyc-mayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gotham magazine reports<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericadams2021.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayoral candidate Eric Adams<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; He once said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/faq.nyc\/2020\/01\/29\/eric-adams-is-packing-heat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAQ NYC podcast interview<\/a> that he would forego a police detail if elected mayor and carry his own gun (he\u2019s backtracked on both, to a degree) &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an old video Adams made when he was in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Senate<\/a>.  At the 4:04 mark he points the gun at his face and has his finger on the trigger.<\/p>\n<p><center><div class='jwplayer' id='jwplayer-0'><\/div><script type='text\/javascript'>if(typeof(jQuery)==\"function\"){(function($){$.fn.fitVids=function(){}})(jQuery)};jwplayer('jwplayer-0').setup({\"aspectratio\":null,\"width\":480,\"height\":270,\"primary\":\"html5\",\"image\":\"\/images\/blackbox.jpg\",\"file\":\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/video\/unsafeericadams.mp4\"});\n<\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good that he&#8217;s backtracked on carrying.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D23092&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=23092\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=23092\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=23092\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I don&#8217;t care who chooses to exercise their 2A rights to carry. There are exceptions, however. Gotham magazine reports on Mayoral candidate Eric Adams: &#8220;&#8230; He once said in an FAQ NYC podcast interview that he would forego a police detail if elected mayor and carry his own gun (he\u2019s backtracked on both, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D23092&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=23092\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=23092\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=23092\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,13,20,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2021","category-guns","category-humor","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23100,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092\/revisions\/23100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}