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About good not guns ala Colorado Batman massacre

by Gary

In America the gun is king
The freedom
to own a gun paramount
Pictures of bleeding children
Of corpses and
funerals less important
Like a poem that
lacks a trigger
The dead deserve better

The right to life
Is surely bigger than
A Batman film
turned into a bloodbath

Help me write a poem
About Angels and
not death
About good not guns





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Re: About good not guns ala Colorado Batman massacre (Score: 1 )
by AsIf on Monday, July 23, 2012 (16:05:32)
This poem seems kneejerk and exploitative. Also..imagine if one of the moviegoers had been armed..perhaps some lives could have been saved.

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    Re: About good not guns ala Colorado Batman massacre (Score: 1 )
    by Gary on Monday, July 23, 2012 (16:47:05)
    Thanks for your comments



    Gary

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Re: About good not guns ala Colorado Batman massacre (Score: 1 )
by BrokenWordsPoet on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 (08:49:32)
Gary I know AsIf was to the the point with his thoughts on this poem. Rondo and I got in to the same subject on his title; The 2nd Amendment is Obsolete. Go buy read and add your two cents. I have to agree with AsIf, some of the men in the theater were military men and trained to handle such situations all they could do being unarmed was throw their body over their love ones and pay the price. I think it is a shame that these loonies are are armed in the first place; this man (loony)was under psychiatric care, judged unstable and gun control law are not setup to stop these loony s from purchasing a fire arm. I put it on the backs of Government and the Psychiatric community. They should require that Psychiatric doctors report not only to some University board alone but also to outside law enforcement when someone is judged unstable.

BWP... James...

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    Re: About good not guns ala Colorado Batman massacre (Score: 1 )
    by Gary on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 (10:07:48)
    Those are very good points you
    make James and I agree with
    all you say, a gun is no good
    for an unstable person. It's a pleasure
    to read an insightful comment
    and one that adds to debate.
    To me a poem is a feeling
    and it terrifies me to
    think I could go to a movie
    and get shot. I'm not advocating
    banning guns but I am worried.

    Thank You James.

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