 Major sponsors for Abledon on Air include Green Mountain Support Services of Vermont, Washington County Mental Health, Al-Israel. Food sponsors for Abledon on Air include Geffen Foods Israel, Osam Foods Israel. Major media sponsors for Abledon on Air include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, www.thisisthebronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, U.S. Press Court, Domestic and International. Anchor F.L. and Spotify. Welcome to this edition of Abledon on Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the different label. I've always been your host, Lauren Seiler, and Arlene is here. Hello, Arlene. Okay. You're listening to the Abledon on Air on OrchardMedia, www.OrchardMedia.net, and also you are listening to the Abledon on Air podcast only on Anchor F.M. and Spotify. On this edition, we are going to be speaking this whole weekend and this whole past week has just been extremely bad for the city of New York and the whole world. This gun violence is really taking hold of the situation. So we are going to be speaking about gun violence and people with disabilities. Unfortunately, our guest is unable to make it today because I tried to reach them and they're unable to make it. So we are going to be speaking about gun violence and people with special needs. Anything you want to say about that, Arlene? Before we get into our... Yeah. Now, there are laws. I'm going to look it up here. Next time I'll be able to bring the computer, but I'm going to look it up while we talk and we... Being commissioner. Why don't you say a couple of police commissioner? Okay, so basically there are laws and people with disabilities with guns. So let's look those up. And firearms, which is a big, big problem in the United States today. The 1968 Gun Control Act prohibits convicted felons and certain other persons from possessing or receiving firearms, but they may petition the BATF, which is a group to get firearms. For relief from these disabilities, anyone who's application is denied may seek judicial review in the review court. Law number USC S925. Basically, there is a federal law, but if you are acquiring or having or carrying a firearm, any firearm or dangerous ordinance is dangerous while the person is a fugitive from justice or while under indictment of a violent drug felony or drug alcohol-dependent problem or has been adjudicated mentally incompetent. There are states that, if you are mentally incompetent, by the way, I'll give... By the way, we are sponsored. The Ableton on Air is sponsored by Washington County Mental Health, and you can reach them if you need help through Washington County Mental Health Services. You can reach them at www.wcmhs.org. But if you have a weapon and are disabled, I know Vermont is... I know Vermont is an open, carry state. But there are serious repercussions of having a firearm. In the coming weeks or coming months, we will try to get the chief of the Montpellier Police Department, Pete, his name is Pete, to explain that more. But there are serious repercussions for having a firearm. Sometime back, last year, as a matter of fact, August of last year, Mark Johnson, who lived in Montpellier, was shot by a police officer for having a gun in his possession. And the whole east side of Montpellier looked like the SWAT team. But I think if you have a gun, and you're disabled, you shouldn't have one. There is a law with the... Anything you want to say in reference to that, Arlene? What? Anything you want to say in reference to being disabled and having a firearm? Well, you shouldn't have a firearm. You shouldn't have one, because maybe he's going to... He's going to have a firearm. He's going to have a firearm. Because in these mental cases, many people with mental problems shouldn't have it. Never. They should never carry one of these mental people, because they could shoot, they could have crazy people. Well, we shouldn't say crazy. There's different laws. Mental, mental challenged people. They have a career, but never. And I think that people... Check your time, check your time, check your time. It's up to the congressman or somebody or the senator to prevent these people from carrying firearms. Okay. So let's go over here. According to this law under the Cornell Law School, Section 27, C-R-F-S 478-114, Relief from Disabilities Under the Act. Any person who makes an application or relief from disabilities under the act for a firearm, it says here, an application for such relief shall be filed in triplicate with the director. But then it goes down here. In case of an application under the indictment, you actually can go to a mental institution. It says if you're considered number five here, in case of an applicant who has been adjudicated mentally defective or committed to a mental institution, a copy of the order should go to the court. In other words, if you have been in a mental institution or anything like that, you cannot own a gun. I mean, in the fact of New York this weekend, 30 people died by gunshot just on the weekend. And then in the last 48 to 72 hours, it jumped to 75. So what the NRA in my journalistic opinion should be, oh, that's our guest. Let's go to him. Hi, Kenny. Okay, hold on. Hold on. Can you do it? Can you do it? Right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to merge you. I'm going to merge you right now. Hold on. Hello. Kenny, are you there? Yeah. Kenny, Kenny. Hi, Kenny. We're on the phone with Kenny Augusto. Kenny Augusto is with Senator Bailey's office of the Bronx. Kenny, my wife and I are on the phone with you. Let's talk. Hi, Kenny. So let's talk, since we have you on the phone, let's talk about the serious problem that has been going on with the Bronx and basically the world. This past weekend, and the past week as a matter of fact, there's been a lot of gun violence with New York City. Can you talk a little bit about how your office is dealing with this serious problem and how, you know, because I just went a little bit over the law. You know, if you're mentally challenged, you're not allowed to have a firearm. So what is your office doing in New York City and how can we work together as one people to stop gun violence? Here, again, an activist in the South Park. Mm-hmm. And I work with groups like not in my neighborhood, you don't, they're programmed. I work with Stop the Violence, I work with SUV in the Northeast Bronx, with Bronx Rises. And, you know, and Larry, you know me for a long time, so you know I worked with several elected officials in the 17 years I've been in government. Yeah. So we lower violence by engaging our youth. We lower violence by working in our community as tough ones. So, like, Bronx Park East Community Association, my group, we were able to get the kids together and have them paint on rolled-down gates and use art as a medium. Instead of graffiti, what I call illegal graffiti, we're putting legal graffiti, art from the kids. The business is like it because they get beautified. The property owner is like it because their property values go up, but the kids like it and they get to engage. We give them a very big canvas and we talk about financial literacy. We talk about how to stop the violence. We talk about people to prison pipeline, as we call it. I can't remember it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember that. So students to, you know, so students to schools to prison pipeline, to the prison pipeline. And we've been, we've been active in doing that. So like, they said, no, I'm in a gang. Yeah. And a lot of people, especially now during COVID, I was watching the news not too long ago and, you know, people were looting, especially on Fordham Road. They were stealing. Do you think gang violence and all this violence has anything to do with COVID or is it separate? Or is it a combination of the two? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Could you so talk about a little bit about the history of how you became a community activist. And I mean, if it's okay, we can also mention, well, you can mention that you're running for city council soon, whenever that is, which I think will be a next. And you've really personified, you know, a person with a challenge, despite your challenge, you've done so much for the community at large. So can you explain what you've done and how, and who, and the second part to the question is, who influenced you? Who was your biggest influence to do what you are doing now? Poverty and food. Well, as a person, I also have disabilities. I'm dysplastic. I'm dysgraphic. I grew up on resource room. I couldn't read. I had to relearn how to read. I had to do a lot of things to help myself. I'm happy to say I'm learning disabled. I'm differently able. But that doesn't take away from us. No, it doesn't. So what is your platform? I mean, if it's okay to mention that you're running for city council, what, being the fact that you're a huge advocate, a huge advocate in the field of disabilities and working for Senator Bailey's office, what will be your biggest platform when you become, when you win in the city council? Representative, third, and I'm a group of operative lads. My life has been about the people where I live. The president comes in and we have COVID. We have 180,000 people, 20,000 in New York. In the first, number one, epicenter of the epicenter. If you cannot tell me, okay, 20% of our youth don't know if they're gonna make it number one. And 20%, 20% of people probably are, they probably, food insecurity plays into that too as well. African American, Latino ex-communities, a whole bunch of elderly poor people of color took COVID because they had stuff, we have hypertension, we have awe, we have that, okay? Yeah. Talk about the youth, because I know for a while they were going to, speaking about youth, when I was growing up, some of youth employment program was big in my life. They gave me a lot. I remember too, I was, I was 1985. Yeah, so 1988, 1988, I had an opportunity. I went to my, my building's creative arts center and I was working in the summer camp there, but I did that for about six years of my life. And through the Blasio's office, I know that they were saying that they were gonna cut a lot of youth programs. Is there any alternatives to some of youth if there's COVID? I mean, what is the alternative this summer? Do you have anything to add to that? Yeah. Yeah. But you can't just tackle it alone. Other people have to tackle it with you. Well, this is not just not about Kenny and Hostel, this is about the people that live in that district and the Bronx has home. Yeah. Okay? Yeah. They barely made it to the housing process because New York City's housing authority just doesn't have a South Bronx. They have to develop and happen to them. COVID hit them hard as well. What are we doing? Yeah, yeah. What is a, for those that don't know, what's a bailout? So, that means youth taxpayers? Wow. So, you're a huge activist in the field of special needs. How, besides what you're planning on doing, all right? Now, how long is, for a person that runs for city council, how long are they allowed to run for? Two or three years? Mm-hmm. Do you plan, now, will you be the only person with a disability on city council or has there been others in the past? Get out. Mm-hmm. Anything else you want to add to what you're doing in, for what you're doing in the Bronx and beyond? I said, anything else you would like to add to what you're doing in the Bronx and beyond because you're doing some extraordinary work? Yeah. Question in reference to that. For example, the traffic lights, you push them, they speak. Down in Manhattan, they have the, how come, how come in the Bronx they don't or some parts of the Bronx they don't? They should have that all over the place. They have it here in Vermont. Yeah. So, why is it that some parts in Manhattan have that, but not everybody does? Is that a money thing or is that a, that can't be laziness. Is it completely money? Yeah. Okay, I'm going to repeat it again. Can you hear me? Okay. So, the situation is that some parts of Manhattan have that traffic light where people can, where people can push the button and it speaks to you across the street. So, my question is, why is it that all of the city doesn't have that? Well, Kenny, I would like to thank you for joining us on this edition of Ableton on Air and for television and the podcast. We'd like to thank our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, Division for the Blind and Visually Imperative Vermont, and Anchor FM. And we would like to thank all our sponsors. And Kenny, we'd just like to thank you again for joining us on this edition of Ableton on Air. Thanks again, man. Next time you need me to be on your show, it's my pleasure. Okay? All right. Say hello. Stay in your end of everyone. So, I love you guys both. Keep up and don't forget. Say hi to Senator Bailey for us, huh? I will, man. Thank you. No problem. Take care. Love you guys. Be good. All right. Thanks. This puts an end to this edition of Ableton on Air. I'm Lauren Seiler. I'm Armin Seiler. See you next time. Major sponsors for Ableton on Air include Green Mountain Support Services of Vermont, Washington County Mental Health, Israel. 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