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Self Defence 2021

[A slight rewrite of my 2018 poem]

In your modern nation
Your civilisation
Is under a threat from miniaturisation 
’cause one day they’ll make it and someone will fake it
A nice compact nuclear bomb...

That Clips on a rocket
That fits in your pocket
And no one cares where it comes from
A copy, a knock off, with bits that will drop off
Just hope the damned thing don’t go wrong

Global destruction
With basic instruction
For people in banks, shops and farms
Wherever they’re working there’s somebody lurking
Demanding the right to bear arms

Your forefathers voted
And thus it was noted
(In spite of a future not reckoned)
They’d keep arms resplendent, and wrote an amendment
And this one they numbered the second 

But when they discussed it
Sword, cannon and musket
Was just about all that they’d got
Rather less keen, if they had foreseen
Machine gun or multiple shot

If you need to clobber
a thug or a robber
Here’s what I can’t help thinking of
One shot at a time can stop them just fine
So, what’s with the Kalashnikov

So when they invent it
And fakers have bent it
And nobody cares who it harms
I hope you have fun with your nuclear gun
’cause you have the right to bear arms





21 April 2021 (A slight rewrite of a 2018 poem)
Contest: Guns
Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco

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L Milton Hankins Date: 4/21/2021 8:54:00 AM Terry, your poem is right on-target. No pun intended. I am not anti-guns; I am anti-gun military style weapons in the wrong hands. Guns should be for hunting and self-protection only...period. It's beginning to look like we ought to disarm the police! Login to Reply Terry Flood Date: 4/21/2021 11:48:00 AM When I first wrote this I genuinely wondered if there really was no definition of what constitutes ‘arms’ and would a pistol sized nuclear weapon be condoned under ‘the right to bear arms’... my guess is it would come under some prohibited materials legislation, but I’d bet hard cash that some numpty would test the law and some numpty would defend him. Thanks for stopping by. Terry

Tom Cunningham Date: 4/21/2021 4:10:00 AM Worrying times Terry, bombs getting smaller all the time and someone will invent one. When you see how computers have shrunk from what they were, now you can fit them in the palm of your hand. Good luck in the contest Tom Login to Reply Terry Flood Date: 4/21/2021 4:21:00 AM If Mad Max is Midnight, I think we’re now at 11:45 pm. I was dubious about even entering my ‘Nuclear Gun’ ode as when I first listed it, It had 400 views and not a single comment... not terribly encouraging. Still, you’ve broken that duck for me, so thanks for stopping by. Terry