New York faces limits in coping with gun violence without federal change: expert
STORY: New York faces limits in coping with gun violence without federal change: expert
DATELINE: April 15, 2022
LENGTH: 00:02:20
LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S.
CATEGORY: POLITICS
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1. SOUNDBITE (English): CHRISTOPHER HERRMANN, Assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York
STORYLINE:
An expert from New York says that local governments in New York face constraints in addressing gun violence if the U.S. federal government keeps existing laws unchanged.
SOUNDBITE (English): CHRISTOPHER HERRMANN, Assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York
"Without certain federal legislation, there's you know, we're limited as to what we can do on the local level. So you know cities like New York are not gonna be able to control a lot of the guns that come into the state and come into the city. But this has been a problem going on for decades now.
I mean New York City has some of the toughest gun laws in the country, but the problem is that the overwhelming majo
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