In Asa Hutchinson's Arkansas, gasoline poses an emergency but guns don't. But, he said, no new state laws on guns would eliminate in the foreseeable future the gun threat for which schools must be better prepared. As he reminded during the session with reporters, his presidential interest is that the country needs a conservative with common sense. At any rate, governors of both parties have taken the initiative, from New York and Connecticut to Florida and Georgia, to suspend state gasoline taxes, usually for three months. John Brummett, whose column appears regularly in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is a member of the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame.

Source: New York Times June 05, 2022 07:19 UTC