Arming Sister Margaret!

If the GOP agrees to sticking out their necks:

Call for comprehensive, universal background checks,

Give police authority to take somebody's gun,

Raise the legal age to purchase them to 21,

I think we should let the teachers in a school decide

If they want to have a loaded pistol by their side...

If they did - and if they're trained on how to use their guns -

I'm prepared to compromise and let them arm the nuns.

(Sister Margaret was armed... She had her rosary.

She'd begin to swing those beads when she was mad at me.

With that heavy, metal cross that dangled from the end

She was not a woman you would argue with, my friend.)

'though, not everyone is Sister Margaret - Thank God! -

My sons had two State cops coach their Varsity Wrestling squad;

I'd trust guys like them with guns if they brought them to school.

I would make that bargain any day...  I'm not a fool.

If the President's sincere and starts to back away

From positions long supported by the NRA

I think that he'd see his polls dramatically increase.

He would have my full support...  Will wonders never cease?

Arming Sister Margaret?

(The stuff of nightmares.)

 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students give me hope

That the NRA has finally got sufficient rope

To go hang themselves. As A+ members call their bluff,

It feels like the tide has turned.  The country's had enough.

Where the politicians feared to tread, these students dare.

Long time donors mailed in checks made out for "thoughts and prayer."

Companies are pulling their support as pressure grows

To do something - even though the lobbyists oppose.

Maybe, when the worst already happens (if you live)

You begin to find inaction harder to forgive.

Maybe all that righteous anger aimed at us adults

Has a halfway decent chance of getting some results.

I'm afraid to hope for much...  I wouldn't bet the store.

NRA has weathered many storms like this before.

I pray it's the tipping point and we'll get something done

(Anything but giving Sister Margaret a gun.)

The Vatican - Are They Crazy?

(Warning: YouTube clip is PG13 and contains
some "Filthy mouths and  bad attitudes.")

First, I'd like to make it clear - I'm not an atheist,

It's only religious dogma I tend to resist.

I believe there's Something...  What It is I cannot tell.

My poor father's pretty sure I'm going straight to Hell.

I was raised a Catholic. I went to Catholic schools.

I'm no longer Catholic; I didn't like their rules.

Why not blame it on the nuns? The Vatican sure does.

Don't like when a Sister will not shut her mouth because

Women are subservient, according to the Church.

Men are meant to rule and nuns are joggling their perch.

I think that's ridiculous. It's past time to ordain

Women. Besides, telling nuns to "Shut up" is insane!

Maybe Rome could look at it like this; As Jesus' spouse,

Nuns should be responsible for cleaning up His House.

It's been looking dirty lately...  Make the Pope a nun.

Give it to a woman when you must get something done.