What's Important Here Is

Your five-year-old climbed up on the ladder you left out,
and fell and broke his arm -
an accident.
So the ladder stays in the closet
until you change a bulb or clean the windows.

Your five year old was playing near the lawnmower
or behind the family car, or too close to the power saw -
they have their functions, the kid has no business there.
So they're turned off - to avoid an accident.

You buy your five-year-old a real gun that goes bang,
whose sole function is to kill.
He shoots his baby sister dead,
one child less, and one damaged for life.

What's important here is,
you've got your 2nd Amendment Right -
at least you haven't lost that.
You said so, and the coroner and the cop on the scene,
they both said so.

And everyone's calling it "an accident."

Glad to see you all have your priorities straight.
What's important here is,
to enjoy your Constitutional Right,
that's what it's there for.

And what could be more American?

So stick to your guns,
don't give an inch on this!
And I'll stop losing sleep over it.
This "bleeding-heart" expatriate
is through wasting tears anymore.