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Assault rifles? Yessiree!
They're on special offer
Buy one get one free!
They're flying off the shelves
And ideal for home defence
But that's not why you want one
When will you all see sense?

You claim the constitution
It's not just that any more
You've got firearms by your bedside
And one hanging at every door
Your arsenal is extensive
Bear traps, sharp sticks and knives
All equally effective
At taking innocent lives

And while you spend your day
Proudly polishing your guns
And quoting home protection
They're in the hands of your sons
With a beef against whatever
Maybe he didn't like his hair
He'd repel an invading army
With the guns he'd brought to bear

Is it then the rage takes over?
When you hold one in your hands?
Or does that only come
When we see remembrance stands
Hopefully your gun laws
Are about to hit the skids
When the only thing they do
Is help you mow down your own kids

At the local church
There's a service for the dead
Light a solemn candle
For the township, bow your head
It's quite a thing to kill a man
Instinct born and bred
Make sure the safety's off
Just before you go to bed

And now the true grief has arrived
Constitutionally
Everybody's up in arms
At the threat to liberty
I'm all for home protection
But there are ways and means
Staying on this path
Leads to elementary murder scenes...

Meanwhile, in the gun shop
A choice is made, not hard
A hundred thousand rounds
To protect his own back yard
He keeps them safely locked
But everybody's got a key
Only in America
Home of the brave, land of the free...

leelee101

@leelee101

Try to know a little about a lot. Not a lot about little.

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Comments & Feedback (36)

No offence intended to our US Opuss friends. Just how I see it. 👍

Well done to you Lee. A sensitive subject tackled well indeed. Words have great power to change things I feel... You never know! It is a bizarre situation where people live under threat, not from outside enemies but their own people! ✨

@leelee101 well said honey :)

Well put Lee. It is still heart breaking 💔👏👏

@sarahgamal thanks Sarah. 😢 It'll be yesterday's news before we know it, so I thought I'd have my say. ❤ Thanks for reposting hunny 👍🌹

@sammielee46 thanks Sam, just my take on it. ❤ Thanks for reposting hun 👍🌹

@Stablish appreciate that RP fella 👍 thank you 🍻

@sleepydragon thanks Diana. Can't quite believe as they're putting the little ones on the ground, they're bemoaning the threat to their liberty... Wake up! 👍❤🌹

@rhona thank you for reposting hunny 👍❤🌹

@leelee101 your welcome! :-) <--- I really need to find out how to do proper pictures!! LOL

Brilliantly put. Very powerful writing hun. 😘

@rhona App Store. Emoji. It's free hun. 👍❤🌹🎁

@jojo72 thank you jojo appreciate that hunny 👍❤🌹

@leelee101 Oooh great! Thanks, will have a look now, it's not as if I should be working! ;-)

@rhona ah sod 'em. Only a day and a half to go babe... 👍👍👍😍🎅🎁🍻

@Irrational_Kimmi thanks for the RP hunnybunch™ 👍❤🌹

@leelee101 true! & just been told we're finishing at 2:30 tomorrow! Bonus! 😀👏 oh, and look what I found!! 😋

Great write hun 👏👏👏 the ban should be on all guns not just Assault rifles a semi or fully automatic light machine gun can do more arm 😔

Harm even lol 😘

@leelee101 I love this Lee, sums up my feeling perfectly.

@rhona 😃😃😃😃😃 👍❤👏👏👏🎉🎈🎶🍸💋💋💋

@sjw thanks hun, I only used assault rifles as they were mentioned on the news this morning. But they've got to do something. 😢 Thanks for the kind RP Sie 👍❤🌹

@Irrational_Kimmi thank u sweety 👍❤🌹

@leelee101 I have those too!👹👼🙀👽🙊🙉🙈👄💃👋💋☔🐙🐙🐔🍐🍋🍩🍕🏂🎿🚴🎨💉🔪🔫💣🎅👻🇬🇧🚗

I wasn't pointing that out hun I meant Obama is talking about banning assault rifles is that really gonna make a difference they should all be banned 😘

@rhona are you Japanese? 😂 Some of 'em don't work sweety, you'll find out which, in time! 👍❤

@sjw oh I know hun, and you're right, it won't make any difference at all. 😢

@patdolan83 appreciate that RP sir 👍 thank you

@leelee101 oh b*gger! 😞 LOL

Powerful and brilliant write...fabulous piece Hun 👏✨👏✨👏✨👏✨👏✨👏✨👏

@rhona 😂😂😂👍

@misslittleDHP just the way I see it my sweet. Thank you. And big ol' 💋💋💋 for the RP Kim. 👍❤🌹

@misslittleDHP that should read it is just the way I see it 👍❤

@crowncottage thanks for reposting this one Linda appreciate that 👍❤🌹

Yikes ;/

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