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Letter: Republicans lose credibility

By Roy Wilson, Vancouver
Published: June 27, 2022, 6:00am

I have two questions for today’s “Party of Trump”:

1. If after Clinton’s 2016 loss, disgruntled Democrats had done exactly what Trump supporters did on Jan. 6, 2021, would you have called that “peaceful protest” or “normal tourism”?

2. As our children are murdered in their schools, why do you not care?

After Uvalde, one headline read: “There Are No Words.” The grief and sentiment are understandable, but the statement is wrong. There are words, and they need to be said: “It is long past time to stand up to the gun lobby and fix this.”

The very people who say life is so precious that all abortions must be banned simply shrug when our children are gunned down in cold blood.

Republicans have always blocked sensible gun control. Instead, they crow about “American exceptionalism.” Well, we are exceptional: Ours is the only nation in the world that repeatedly lets their children be slaughtered.

For Republicans to have any credibility regarding how they value life, they must choose: Either support sensible gun control laws to stop these shootings, or remove all their restrictive laws regarding abortion, and just send those oh-so-helpful “thoughts and prayers” to all pregnant women and leave it at that.

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