Parkland, FL - Just Another Massacre

Thoughts and prayers. (Photo courtesy of palmbeachpost.com)

I guess all our "thoughts and prayers" from last time weren't enough...

We don't like school shootings every 60 hours? Tough.

Can't infringe on rights the Constitution guarantees.

Think some more dead children come before that? Honey, please.

We've become like moving targets on a shooting range.

NRA has bought the Congress... Nothing's gonna change.

Maybe if we found some way to siphon off their wealth;

Taxed gun sales and used the cash for funding mental health...

But - of course - we won't do that...  Or anything at all.

Only tired "thoughts and prayers." The writing's on the wall;

This is our new normal and it's likely to persist.

Just another massacre. We'll add it to the list.

Too Soon?

 

Still too soon for talking about gun control, I guess...

Haven't finished cleaning - yet another - tragic mess.

Now is not the time to ask why 26 more died.

Maybe we're supposed to wait until the blood has dried.

At the rate that things are going though, there's one small hitch,

When we say we're too close to the situation - Which?

Were we still too close to Vegas?  When's the proper time

To discuss prevention of the next mass shooting crime?

There'll be lots of "thoughts and prayers" and silences observed

But, we future shooting victims would be better served

If, instead of waiting, in respect for all our dead,

We insist that Congress passes gun control, instead.

Universal background checks...  Is that too much to ask?

It gives us a fighting chance by helping to unmask

People who should not have guns...  Like guys who beat their wife;

If someone is dangerous they should be banned for life.

Dear Congress... Spare Us

 

Spare me the condolences and useless thoughts and prayers,

Lowered flags and silent moments...  No one really cares.

I'm so sick and tired of the empty gestures when

Nothing ever changes...  And it's happening again.

"Now is not the time to talk about it," Sanders said.

We should "come together" for the wounded and the dead.

Background checks and gun control would not have stopped this crime,

Therefore, we should just do nothing, like we did last time...

And the time before that and the all too many more

When they've offered thoughts and prayers in speeches from the floor.

Lowered flags?  I'm sure that - this time - that'll do the trick.

I think I might go and vomit now...  I'm feeling sick.

Washington Navy Yard Shootings... Here We Go Again

Cue the scary music that announces Breaking News;

(Thanking God that you weren't standing in the victims' shoes)

Watching as they tally up the injured and the dead.

Speculating; 'What was going through the shooter's head?'

Just another killing spree; this time the Navy Yard.

Proving that we're never safe; not even with a guard.

With a semi-automatic, one could hardly miss.

Wonder what the NRA's response will be to this.

Useless thoughts and prayers go out to those Alexis shot;

All who will be suffering - long after we've forgot.

Just like all the other names and faces from the past.

Sadly, I can guarantee that they won't be the last.

Dear Massachusetts Republicans... Can We Talk About Gabriel?

Pond scum.  (Photo/TheSunBreak.com)

Candidate for Senate lost his temper; acted dumb.

Gomez called Ed Markey "dirty," said he was "pond scum,"

Says that ads that Markey ran distorted all the facts...

I have met some Senators and that's not how one acts.

Seems to me it's Gomez who's been running dirty ads.

Claiming he was blamed for Newtown takes some huge gonads.

Pointing out Gomez defended OPSEC's ad campaign

Isn't Markey calling him bin Laden...  That's insane.

Just because Conservatives in Massachusetts know

Voters wouldn't like the truth, they shouldn't sink so low.

Why does Gomez not defend positions that he's had?

He should check his mirror and then run a cleaner ad.

The 113th Congress and the Newtown Parents

Newtown parents joined the President on Air Force One,

Vowing they will never rest until their battle's won;

Flying down to Washington to lobby on the Hill;

Fighting for reforms the NRA would like to kill.

Universal background checks which, most of us agree,

Make good sense and is a measure we'd all like to see

May not pass the Senate which will, seemingly, ignore

Changes that the vast majority are asking for.

How did things get so messed up that it's the NRA

With the only voice that seems to ever get a say?

Newtown parents - those who've buried daughters, wives, and sons -

Speak with more authority on legislating guns.

The 113th Congress - Who Are You Working For, Anyway?

Pistol packin' teachers stationed in the nation's schools;

That's the only change the NRA wants to the rules.

They'll agree to background checks for teachers who are armed...

After all, they wouldn't care to see more children harmed.

That is the extent of any changes that they want.

NRA has always had the influence to daunt

Any politician who attempts to compromise

'cause Wayne LaPierre, their spokesman, stoops to spreading lies.

They're opposed to background checks; they call them registries.

Say we'll come to take their guns away but, honey, please...

That is simply crazy talk. There are no men in black.

We just need a change after the Sandy Hook attack.

Most of us want background checks; that seems the place to start.

We want mental health professionals to play a part.

If the Congress represents The People's will, then they

Need to show us they're not working for the NRA.

The NRA - WTF? (Wants to Forget)

Since the Newtown massacre the NRA has tried

To deflect attention from the numbers who have died.

(Meanwhile we Americans run out and purchase guns...

Makes me want to swear but I am still afraid of nuns.)

This is what a lobbyist can do when they have cash;

Politicians are afraid the NRA will thrash

Anyone who even tries to bring the issue up.

Is the NRA creating paranoia? Yup.

Once they thought that background checks for everyone was cool;

Advocated for a weapons-free zone at a school.

Now  they say that any list allows our government

To disarm its citizens - with little effort spent.

Now  they want to arm our teachers.  My, how things have changed.

I've begun to fear Wayne LaPierre's become deranged.

Fostering conspiracies appears to be his aim.

Cash is needed if we hope to beat him at his game.

Smeejie Get Your Gun?

(Photo/ REUTERS/Dave Kaup)

In the wake of Sandy Hook, where 20 children died,

Nation in a state of shock; Barack Obama cried.

(He was not the only one who's eyes had sprung a leak

I know that I wept non-stop for the entire week.)

We all swore we'd make a change to stop these killing sprees.

Think that anything will ever happen?  Honey, please.

While the Newtown parents buried daughters and their sons,

People, in the thousands, stood in line to purchase guns.

Weapons sales went through the roof and bullets sold out quick.

Proof, to me, the culture that we live in's pretty sick.

NRA sounds rational when people are afraid.

How far has my own position on this issue strayed?

I've begun to think that arming teachers makes good sense.

Maybe build a moat, or else electrify a fence.

We now have so many guns we can't uncross the line.

There's a gun for everyone...  I wonder who has mine.