Another shooting, another gun,
legal or not, ghost or real--a gun
that shoots indiscriminately
another innocent (or maybe not)
but someone who did not deserve to die
this way, before their time..
A gun creates a fatherless child,
a frightened mother,
an angry neighborhood,
a tragedy.
A gun kills.
Not just people, but trust.
Not just a man, but hope.
A gun is a weapon of war,
made for battlefields, now employed
in city streets or living rooms
in informal wars declared by
the fearful, the angry, the deluded:
wars no-one can win,
imprisoning us all.
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