Some people say that mass shootings Wouldn't happen if both sides had guns They say that a vigilante crossfire Can protect our nation's daughters and sons
To those people I will tell A story told to me by my family About a situation exactly like that And what the true outcome would be
There was a woman, one of my cousins From somewhere on my family tree I've never met her, but my parents know her And she is related to me
This young woman met a man And eventually they were engaged But what happened next definately was Where things took a turn for the strange
See, my cousin decided to move four hours away With her fiance once they were married This would require her to change her job And the responses to this were varied
In particular my cousin's boss Had a rather bizarre objection When she told him of this, he confessed That, for her, he harbored an affection
My cousin, of course, moved anyways Though she and her husband were very concerned And they were shocked to find her boss stalking her As into their lives he returned
So her husband went to the local sheriff And told him what was happening About how his wife's old boss followed them To the point where it became maddening
The sheriff told him he would help That he would look into what could be done And he also said they'd be safer If the man got himself a gun
So my cousin's husband did that Learned how to fire a shot Then one day the old boss met them In an empty parking lot
The fighting escalated quickly To tensions it had never reached before The man pulled out his gun, and told his wife to run Into the nearby Wal-Mart store
The boss had brought a gun as well And this is the ending that I shall tell A shot to the stomach and a shot to the head By the end of the night, both men were dead
This story is actually (sadly) true. I've never met the cousin in person, but the older members of my family all know her. This story took place before I was born, but I always think about it when people say "both sides should've had guns!" in response to shootings.