I was only six

I’d never heard

Of gun control

I was drawing

Flowers that day

That’s all I remember

Why don’t you

Remember us?

I don’t hear much

About us from you

Mostly you’re talking

About gun control

Why is that all you care about?

You can’t control a gun

If you can’t control yourselves

Are you stupid?

I was drawing flowers

To take home to my mother

Bloody flowers now

All over the country

What will a six year old

Draw tomorrow in school?

I know what I would draw

And I would show it to you

I would make you see it

Make you feel it

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.

Seems the NRA (and all of us) have forgotten THE CHILDREN. There is something sick about a society that cares more about its ‘constitutional rights’ to shop for and buy Corporate Products than it cares about its CHILDREN.  GUNS are a Big Business in this country.  Just like Big Oil, the Car Industry, WalMart, and all the other Wall Street Robber Barons.  BIG BUSINESS NEEDS TO BE REGULATED!  And we need to regulate ourselves.