F**k the 2nd Amendment

See title.

A mother and a father and a brother

Gather around the table

Looking over scattered pictures

Of a smiling girl, not yet seventeen

Her face blurred by a single tear

Soon joined by another  

"Please don't take my guns"

 

A mother and a father and a brother

Together in a car, that for the first time

Feels strangely empty

"Please don't take my guns" 

 

A mother and a father and a brother

Walk together into a room of silence

Friends and family standing, staring

Not knowing what to say

"Please don't take my guns" 

 

A mother and a father and a brother

Looking one last time at the smiling girl

Not yet seventeen

Her face blurred by several tears

That feel like they’ll never stop

"Please don't take my guns" 

A mother and a father and a brother

Say goodbye to a daughter and a sister

"Please don't take my guns" 

 

A mother and a father and a brother

Holding each other, with no words to dull the pain

 

"Please don't take my guns"

Reviews

[Gee]

Any other country in the world would change their laws to protect but not the ever waning super power America. Oh no , the right to bear arms is so, so precious, more precious than innocent lives. How many of these type of attacks have been halted by a gun wielding member of the NRA.....hmmmm, I'd hazard a guess at none.
UNBELIEVABLE

[Karen Redburn]

My heart goes out to Americans. The sadness seems unending and your poem perfectly reflects the strongly held belief within the NRA and the strong gun culture in America. The only things that can give these parents some sort of.. I don't know what to call it. But the only thing that can help would be new gun laws that at the very least remove these assault weapons, not just from those with mental illness but from people in general. What are they needed for!