Eric Adams

It is just unbelievable that we will give absolute immunity to any industry in this country, particularly when there is harm and personal injury.

I am just shocked that 18 years has gone by and this body does not move to reestablish that.

Let the ATF do its job in rounding up so many illegal guns that are on our streets and to finally confirm a nominee.

No, and I think the facts show that.

If we don't have a combined effort with the intervention items we are putting in place, the prevention, and also stop the flow, many of the guns that we are witnessing are purchased or stolen from outside our state.

I am here today to ask every one of you and everyone in this Congress to stand with all of us to end gun violence and protect the lives of Americans.

It is high noon in America, our country, the country I love. The clock is ticking every day, every minute toward another hour of death.

It is high noon in America, time for every one of us to decide where we stand on the issue of gun violence.

I had no idea what drill rapping was. We`re allowing music, displaying of guns, violence. It is alarming.

To my fellow New Yorkers, we got him. We got him.

While we identify these dangerous threats, why aren't we being more proactive, instead of waiting for this to happen?

Anytime you have a person that use a smoke device, you have a person that discharges a weapon in the system that appear to have placed a gas mask on his face. That is a person that is intentionally trying to terrorize our system.

It is crucial to us that we move at a very methodical level, the police department is excellent in carrying out this function.

They are searching for the perpetrator still tonight.

We are communicating with the MTA who the agency is in charge of the cameras. We are communicating with them to identify what happened, what are the sole purposes for having cameras in the subway system is to identify acts like this, and…

It`s clear that there was a intention to bring terror into our subway system, and terrorize the lives of those innocent New Yorkers who are merely commuting, carrying out their daily business in the city.

To my fellow New Yorkers, we got him. We got him.

And if New York City is suffering from the proliferation of guns flowing through the iron pipeline, then New York City should be proactive, as Mayor Adams has indicated he would be, in disrupting that iron pipeline, going to the places…

Ending gun violence means changing gun laws. We cannot clean up a flood when the water is still pouring into the basement. And we can never stop the killing if we cannot stop the guns.

You have my word as a former police officer, a fellow New Yorker and your mayor that we will end this epidemic, and that we will capture the individual responsible for today`s attack.

We're going to make sure New Yorkers feel safe in our subway system and they don't feel that way now.

What all of battle is in the subway system is fighting the perception of fear that cases like this could happen.

The subway is safe, and he rides the subway often to send a message.

This is terror -- someone attempting to terrorize our system. They brought in what appears to be some form of smoke device. They discharged a weapon, and so I don't want to be premature in identifying that this was not, I think, at this…

New York City should be proactive, as Mayor Adams has indicated he would be, in disrupting that iron pipeline.