What Have We Come To?

I can't watch the news tonight  
Can you?  
   
So much senseless senseless  
senseless senseless senseless  
gun violence today--  
and this had been such a  
wonderful day until  
I turned on the news  
(see former poem)  
   
All these people  
going crazy  
killing family members  
carjackings  
robberies  
just  
senseless senseless senseless    
   
O  despicable daughter of Babylon  
(aka the NRA First Church of Satan)  
who art to be destroyed  
happy shall we be when we  
elect legislators with spines  
willing to go down in flames  
in the political primaries  
willing to be doxed  
willing to endure abuse  
at the hands of hunters  
needing that AR-15 to kill  
Bambi's mother  
and the 13 year old sister  
and the State Patrol Officer  
who stopped to help  
the man with the AR-15  
with a flat tire  
who shot the Good Samaritan    
dead.  
   
what have we come to?  
what kind of politicians  
do we have?  
   
Where are we as a country?  
As poets?  
As sons, daughters, family members,  
neighbors, congregations  
that we vote or don't bother to vote  
to let these things happen?  
   
Tear down the NRA.  
Vote out those taking money from the  
N.R.A.
DO SOMETHING!!!  
Take our country back.  
Please? 
   
I am sick to death of this.  
Aren't you?