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Gun Addicts Despair

Gun addicts sad and looking glum
                       No lives were lost to guns today -
                       No tallies to add to their sums,
                       No reaper swaths with lives to pay.

                       A somber day - a losing streak,
                       Gun addicts dressed in mourning black -
                       Exchanging messages so bleak
                       And cursing this unseen setback.

                       Death didn't take a holiday
                       But, bullets took a day-long pass
                       While gun addicts just pined away
                       And hoped this delay wouldn't last.

                       Yes, longing when the good old days
                       Brought suffering at their behest -
                       Gun addicts would soon hope to raise
                       The flag of mayhem, now at rest.

                       Ah well, a time to hoard a store
                       Of guns and bullets for the fray -
                       As gun addicts prepare once more
                       To shatter lives another day.


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Obsession:                                         Abettors:

The pervasive "need"                          When lawmakers pass
for firearms demonstrates Third           permissive gun laws do they
World mentality.                                 abet homicide?

Copyright © John Ransburg

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