GOP’s talking points

Bradley Gitz’s column started last week off with the usual name-calling, i.e., “woke” for Democrats. Before that Democrats were communists, liberals, and socialists. He blames all the negatives on two years of Biden. It seems the Republican Party’s talking points are so full of holes its only recourse is to hope that subjugates are too asleep to recognize the falsehoods.

The Republican Party tries to hide the facts that the great USA that once led the world in keeping our citizens safe has been degraded terribly because of gun violence. They instead blame this dreaded violence on our current president who had nothing to do with putting ARs and pistols in the hands of potential criminals. Unfortunately, the main reason the majority of people have guns now is to protect themselves from potential criminals. Statistics show the guns they purchased have a greater chance to be used against the owners. Guns are purchased through gun shows and arms dealers forever infiltrating our crime centers. Our police are many times outgunned because of this stupidity. Instead, the NRA thinks we need guns to protect us from the violence that we all see, read, and unfortunately many experience. Yes, I am woke!

The week ended with French Hill”s “Commitment To America” as Hurricane Ian devastated Florida and he again offers no plan. Global warming is not in the Republican Party’s vocabulary. He attacks violent crime incidence but accepts NRA support and donations. He promotes “individual liberties” but is very silent on women’s rights, especially since the overturning of Roe

v. Wade. Hill has been in office eight years and in that time my life expectancy has dropped 1.5 years. Neonatal mortality has been terrible (48th in the U.S.). Gun deaths are now listed as the primary cause of child death, but he and Sarah Huckabee Sanders are attacking Biden.

Please take care of Arkansans and the human race. Wake up.

ANDY CONNAUGHTON Vilonia