Ferocity Of Gun Rights



Ferocity Of Gun Rights

The ferocity of gun rights declares
Human beings are expendable
The grotesque rationale of
A right to bear arms
Flies in the face of
Common sense,
Peace and decency
It is the abomination of life
The psychotic refusal
That destroys the right to live
Without threat or harm
And trades fear and death
For terror and elimination.

Since when do the lives of children
Become unwilling pawns
For grown men to embrace
Weapons of mass destruction
Over the education of innocents?
Laws are meant to protect
Lives not access to weapons
Yet there are those men
And dare I say women
So driven by anger
And irrational insecurities
They lie and mislead you
To stroke triggers and barrels
Instead of the children.

Enough with the gun lobbyists
Who create a cruel world
Where guns outnumber
The people who want to just live
It is time to melt down
Steel barrels and bullets
Into microchips that teach
Gunpowder for fireworks
And triggers into utensils
For the hungry
I have a dream
One day mass shooting
Will be a footnote in history
Instead of a nightmare on the news.

Copywright © 2023 Charles Edward York
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The evil of gun rights

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Written on April 17, 2023

Submitted by charlesedwardyork on April 17, 2023

Modified on April 24, 2023

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Charles Edward York

Charles Edward York is an author and poet activist living in Plano, Texas. He’s written over 1400 poems and published 17 books of poetry. Born in Vietnam and raised a citizen in Dallas, Texas, he writes poems that include the subjects of love and relationships, nature, social justice, including police violence against African-Americans and minorities, astronomy and others. more…

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  • Hardenburg
    Curious, by this logic would you argue that alcohol consumption within the United States should be outlawed? Alcohol consumption is responsible for exceedingly more deaths (including child deaths) when compared to gun violence, and that's even including suicide, which makes up over half of all gun related deaths reported within the United States. With this information in mind, do you think people should still be permitted to drink alcohol? 
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