After every mass shooting
since the tragedy at Columbine,
I hear the same damn
automatic recording
escaping your lips
“Don’t punish
responsible gun owners!”
You insist any meager
attempts at gun regulation
infringe upon your rights,
no matter how many
children lie beneath the rubble
The price of freedom,
the smoking gun
Yet now, as the president
calls for those guns
to be turned on protestors,
enraged at the actions of a few,
I hear not your vocal defense
of the constitutional rights
of the responsible majority
only your nods of agreement
or your chilling silence
Could it be that you value
windows and buildings
above the lives of the children
forced into lockdown drills
inside our schools?
Or is your devotion
to constitutional rights
limited to the amendment
that came immediately after the first?
4 Jun 2020
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