Gun Control (competition entry)

The problem wit fighting fire with fire comes when there is a drought of sanity. Instead of a controlled burn, it becomes a raging forest fire that burns until there is no more fuel to ignite. Guns will continue to fire until there are either no more guns or no more people to pull thier triggers.

There was a time when people carried guns on rheir hips, and yet people still used them to kill each other, even have duels in the streets to settle differences. They used them to comit robberies and murders and all sorts of crimes. And yet, NRA members will try to convince you that we should go back to those days because people won't shoot each other out of fear of other gun carriors.

NO, what they will do is practice being the fastest gun in the land and becoming a better killing machine. Not only do they want handguns they can carry on their hips, but hide under thier coats and have clips and magazines with enough bullets already loaded and ready to blow away dozens of people without so much as a 10 second delay to reload. All that will ensure is that no one can get away and escape death!

I don't want to control guns, I want to control humanity, or rather inhumanity. Normally I would leave that up to God, but frankly, God's done a sucky job of that up to now. Well, there was this one time, lots of water and just a handful of human survivors left to repopulate the world. But as it turns out, Noah's family carried the genetic code for hatred and greed within them and passed it on to all future generations.

The only way to get a handle on gun violence is to get a grip on the violence within us. If we had self-control, there would be no need for gun control. There would be no need for guns at all, if there was no fear, greed or pride. If we could stop loving hatred and feeding our prejudices, we would all be equal and truly free. And only then would freedom be free...

JJ

entered in cometition Gun Control
http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/4244/