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New York State Senator Eric Adams has made an instructional video for parents who may suspect their kids are carrying guns. He uses his experience as a New York City police officer to tell parents how and where to look for guns, bullets, even drugs in their home, and how to talk to their kids about it.

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A NEW short film aimed at curbing gun violence centers on the enduring sorrow of a Brooklyn mother five years after her son was gunned down on a Crown Heights streetcorner. In the brief but powerful video, Robin Lyde recalls seeing her son Benny, 21, sprawled on the sidewalk near her house. “So close to home, but not home,” she says in the film, “Benny Lyde: A Role Model
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One downtown media arts group has a message for New York City youth: Pick up a camera, not a gun.

This week, Manhattan’s Downtown Community Television Center is taking a giant bus around more than a dozen city schools to get students to make videos and talk about friends and family who have been killed in gun violence.