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.
