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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