<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Another Mass Shooting in America</b><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>Author unknown</div><div><br></div><div>School shooting…x number of dead, x injured” is always used </div><div>The thread is a weekly common report in the news </div><div>Then the outpour of condolences come from everywhere </div><div>Some asking questions, mad and sad and offering prayer </div><div><br></div><div>‘Round here, a mass shooting seems to an ongoing theme </div><div>It’s part of the 2nd Amendment and the American Dream </div><div>While grieving parents in horror are left wondering why </div><div>In harrowing pain when their babies senselessly die </div><div><br></div><div>I survived a civil war but this shit is beyond comprehensible </div><div>Lives are being taken away like they’re so dispensable </div><div>Mental health and gun control are a big part of a broken system </div><div>And in the aftermath all we ask, how could we have missed 'em? </div><div><br></div><div>And it happens in the promised land, over and over again </div><div>Gun violence and bloodshed seemingly have no end </div><div>The world has gotten fucked up with flawed laws and legislation </div><div>But the money flowing into deep pockets drives the narration </div><div><br></div><div>It’s like a “God-given right” in the bedrock of the democracy </div><div>“Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” now sounds like hypocrisy </div><div>When the lives of innocent children are hastily taken away </div><div>The soul of our society slowly withers every single day </div><div><br></div><div>‘Round here, the topic divides parties when people have bickered </div><div>And if you mention gun control many get easily triggered </div><div>You won’t believe how some get offended it’s like removing a limb </div><div>Soon they’re up in arms and the situation gets more grim </div><div><br></div><div>But these little boys and girls will never grow old </div><div>It’s the same tragedy that gets told and re-told </div><div>They never had a chance to share or lend their voice </div><div>Pro-life ‘round here seems to mean removing their choice </div><div><br></div><div>When the fuck will this end, how the fuck did we get here? </div><div>As a father I sympathize with those parent’s worst fears </div><div>What nightmare must they be going through today, tonight </div><div>For the rest of their lives when their babies lost their light </div><div><br></div><div>Tonight hold your children or grandchildren when they go to bed.</div><div>Hug them a little tighter with a kiss in their head </div><div>Think of those heartbroken parents full of sorrow </div><div>And pray for them because their pain will continue tomorrow.</div></div><div><br></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>