Dear Editor,

With the recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, how quickly President Biden and the Democrats began politicizing this tragedy in order to push for more “Gun Control Laws.”

You hear absolutely no discussion or any legislation on fixing mental health issues facing our country today or even examining the relationship between mental illness and gun violence. Shouldn’t this be a priority as mass shootings continue to occur with frightening regularity with the latest shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Wednesday, June 1?

This shooting was by a man who had back surgery and was still in pain, who went to the hospital and shot the doctor who operated on him, then two others and then shot himself. Will more regulations and gun laws prevent mental illness and hatred?

I realize not everyone will understand the logic behind my recent experiment I did at home, but, as I thought about the last two mass shootings, I placed my unloaded gun on the kitchen table and left it there for a few days. Nothing happened?

Then I loaded my gun and placed it back on the table and waited again. Nothing happened?

I’m convinced that mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger. Guns do not kill people, people kill people?

While more than two-thirds of the country’s largest cities, including the three largest New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, have tougher gun laws than many of the other states, but today are experiencing an increase in violence and gun-related shootings and deaths, especially in Chicago, where the governor and mayor are Democrats and President Obama was once a Senator?

With all the problems our country is facing right now, Biden claims he is for the working men and women, as he continues to blame Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the oil and gas companies and the rich for high gas prices and inflation. But let’s not lose sight of the truth, gas prices were going up long before Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Biden’s many “executive orders” of pausing leases, halting pipeline construction and imposing heavy regulations on companies are a contributing factor for inflation and high gas prices.

Who suffers? Not the rich, not the politicians, and certainly not Niden! It’s you and me, the working men and women of this country who will have to keep paying and paying.

I’m totally convinced that absurdity abounds in the Democratic Party every time I hear Biden speak incoherently, in my opinion, and then he can’t decide where he is, or, what to do next.

Don’t you have to wonder who is actually running this country?

There’s also something else I don’t understand. How the hatred of President Trump could be so intense that it has blinded Biden’s supporters to the truth about the high gas prices, inflation and open borders.

The Democrats are in denial and refuse to admit that it is Biden’s and their failed policies that have caused the many problems facing us today!

John Bradac

St. Clairsville