By: Cedric McClester

Have we lost our minds
Since Columbine?
Gun violence is a cancer
For which there seems be no answer
But political inaction
Has served as an enhancer
To repeated tragedies
That never had  to be!

Children attend school
With the possibility of being shot
When all they should have to worry about
Is whatever grade they got
Gun violence and school shootings
Seem never ending
What kind of message
Are our elected officials sending?

Second Amendment rights
Be ******
Where our priorities get jammed
Some of our rights
Need to be amended
When they’re not used
The way they were intended
Perhaps they simply need to be rescinded

Expressions of condolences
Come too little or too late
When you’ve lost your child
Through a random act of hate
Perpetrators well may be
Labeled as insane
But the National Rifle Association
And gun violence is our bane








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