One Nation Under Guns

After yet another mass shooting incident at a school...this time in Winder, Georgia, a rural community between Atlanta and Athens...I found it hard to concentrate on the upcoming lessons for Sunday. 

And so instead...I wrote this. The beginnings of what maybe will be a song. Or a rap. Or just an expression of the rage I feel every time I hear of people getting slaughtered in this country because Congress refuses to crackdown on gun manufacturers. 

One Nation Under Guns
Susan Gage
  
We are
What we believe.
A nation in bereavement
An ineffectual response from government
to the slaughter
of our daughters,
fathers, mothers, lovers,
colleagues,  
sons and friends.
Somebody tell me:
When will this end?
When will this end?!
 
Columbine, Virginia Tech,
Sandy Hook, Connecticut,
Vegas, Parkland, Winder,
Dayton, Stockton,
Pittsburgh, Charleston, Buffalo
Lewiston to Orlando
Nashville, Dallas, and El Paso
Baton Rouge and Atlanta
Aurora,
Thousand Oaks, California:
 
Do we hear ya?
Do we know ya?
Do we even give a damn?
 
At a concert, in a movie,
In a school, or buying groceries
There is no place we are free
From this sick mentality
That puts guns over people
Shooters’ rights as a staple
of the freedoms
we were promised with that life and liberty
Pledge allegiance to this land
With an AR-15 in your hand
 
Thoughts and prayers
Lifted high
But no action in reply:
 
Faith without works
is more death.
 
We are
What we believe
One Nation Under Guns.
 
We are
What we believe
One Nation Under Guns.
 
Bang.