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Monday, November 2, 2015

Smart Guns in the Hands of Dumb Asses Won't Change Anything!


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A November 1, 2015 segment on 60 Minutes regarding "smart guns" inspired this:

It’s happened again! Another school shooting
Nine dead-ten if you count the shooter
This time it’s at a community college in Oregon
We have an opportunity once again
To explore the violence in our culture

The NRA jumps right in
Defending our Second Amendment Rights
A news commentator says: We simply
Have to do something about
All these guns…
The government is taking it under advisement
The police, of course, are investigating

I sit on my couch, astounded
once again, by the blatant stupidity
of the people-in-charge
Little mention is made of the shooter’s
mental status
I stand up and holler: Sane people
do not shoot to kill!

Why? Why? Why!
Are the people-in-charge
skirting the core issues: mental illness &
an uncaring culture?
How many more mass killings have to
happen before we wake up?


Raintreepoet, reporting.

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