<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><a class="nocolor fn" href="https://allpoetry.com/poem/11760597-2nd-Amendment-by-MusingsInverse" style="caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 23px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(141, 56, 0); text-decoration: none;">2nd Amendment</a><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><h1 class="title vcard item otitle_11760597" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 23px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 55px; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35);">Author unknown</h1></div><div>I want to walk into a mall</div><div>and load my shopping cart with all</div><div>the stuff the government has got,</div><div>how could it be that I cannot?</div><div><br></div><div>An F16, a Tomahawk,</div><div>this isn't just some crazy talk,</div><div>the Constitution says I'm due</div><div>under Amendment number 2.</div><div><br></div><div>It says we should possess a way</div><div>to keep the government at bay</div><div>should they decide to kill us all</div><div>in massive vats of Anusol.</div><div><br></div><div>See, in the past we only had,</div><div>in case the government went mad,</div><div>our muskets to repel the swine,</div><div>but so did they so it was fine.</div><div><br></div><div>But now the state is well ahead</div><div>in having things that make you dead,</div><div>like tanks and bombs and flying drones</div><div>remote-controlled by mobile phones. </div><div><br></div><div>Let's level out the playing field</div><div>and get us proper arms to wield:</div><div>an RPG, a laser beam;</div><div>fulfill the Founding Fathers' dream.</div><div><br></div><div>So I will hear no more rebuke</div><div>when trying to obtain a nuke,</div><div>or vials of anthrax and of SARS,</div><div>I think by right they should be ours.</div><div><br></div><div>And once we have these things, I'm sure,</div><div>you'll feel protected and secure</div><div>in knowing that not only you</div><div>but all your neighbors have them too.</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>