[Oe List ...] Good Guys With Gun?

[Milan Hamilton]

Here is what has been running around in my brain on the eve of tomorrow’s NRA convention:

Good Guys With Guns
Oh! Mr. Wayne LaPierre
Your speech back in 2012
Just after Sandy Hook
Was so inspiring
For all the good guys
With guns.

We can hardly wait to hear
What you have to say to us
Tomorrow, just after Uvalde.
Will you inspire us again?
Maybe we need good guys
With AR-15s?

Oh! Mr. LaPierre
I so want to be a good guy
Like that good guy
In Buffalo
Who tried to stop the bad guy—
What happened there?

I’m sure you’ll rise to
Meet our expectations:
Thoughts and prayers galore,
Comfort for the poor
Politicians waiting at your door
For their electoral salvation.

Oh! Mr. Wayne LaPierre
Make the case for all of us
Why every eighteen-year-old
Not allowed a beer
Or to drive license-free
Deserves an assault rifle.

Oh! Mr. Wayne LaPierre
By the way, how’s your plan working out?
We want to report back to all the parents
Of Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland, Santa Fe, Texas and Uvalde
Right away!
They’re anxious to hear.

Milan Hamilton
May 26, 2022

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