There is nothing to negotiate.
There is no need for compromise.
Either Americans deserve safety.
Or their lives are an easy forfeit
for gun manufacturers to “make a killing”
and pay off with campaign funds
those who use delay to deny
the basic right to Life, Liberty
and the Pursuit of Happiness.
No one is free if unrestrained guns
deny safety. No happiness ensues
from mass killings, suicides
or neighborhoods riddled with bullets
on the nightly news.
Life itself is not something
to be debated nor negotiated.
Pass the laws needed to save lives.
A living death from fear of guns
kills more than us.
It kills any chance for democracy
itself to survive.
It kills our hope and faith in one another.
More guns. More killing.
Who can deny such basic logic
and expect us not to say “idiots”?
There is no compromise with idiots.
The only thing more idiotic
is to vote for those idiots.
annarino writes 