"This effort within The Bronx Defenders really took off because our colleague Christopher Smith had gone down to Texas, and observed firsthand just how just commonplace it was for folks to have weapons, to have guns, and for no one to bat an eyelash."
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"His experience directly contrasted with our experience as public defenders in New York City, where we are seeing people engage in the exact same conduct and end up on Rikers Island."
"And a lot of the people who support criminal law reform in New York have never really squarely addressed what to do with people possessing firearms for self-defense."
"I mean, if you mention the Second Amendment in a New York City criminal courtroom, people will literally laugh. It’s totally irrelevant to the way law is practiced here."
"And I don’t have any clients, nor have I ever heard of anyone ever having any clients, that were white supremacists whom the New York Police Department arrested for possessing a firearm without a license."
"Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg has even literally admitted that the point of policing in New York City is to throw Black and brown people against the wall and take their guns away."
"They rely on the exact same logic that people did in the 1980s and in the 1990s when aggravating sentences for crack possession or when justifying stop-and-frisk or other increased and aggressive police activity in public housing developments." 
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