Since joining Twitter, I've done quite a few daily "alphabets" of Tweets on current events. Today's were about gun violence in general, the Navy Yard tragedy in particular. Someone suggested that I summarize them in one place, so here they are. Read and weep:
A for atrocity, AR15
And Aaron Alexis - a horrible scene
B for bullsh*t spewed by NRA shills
Who swear it's just people - no gun ever kills
C for the carnage that guns cause each day
Remember: REAL PEOPLE have been blown away
Desperate actions by desperate men
We turn on our TVs; it's happened again
E, everywhere: that's where gun dangers lurk
At home, on the town, in the street and at work
F, firearms - just the name conjures fear
And thousands are killed by them every year
G for gunsense: the idea that, someday
Congress won't be indentured to the NRA
H for hypocrisy: Kelly Ayotte
Dissed victims of Newtown and hopes we forgot
I, indignation: how many must die??
While NRA tells us to go out and "buy"
J is for judgment: will there come a day
For NRA puppets frog-marched on display?
K for the killings with AR15s
We're way too accustomed to massacre scenes
L is for love, brightening every day
No match for an AR15, sad to say
Manufacturers love NRA rhetoric
But for victims and families, it seems really sick
N is for Newtown, young lives blown away
No action's been taken since that dreadful day
O, operations and post-trauma care
Those not killed by bullets face more than their share
P for the profits that gun sales rake in
In some value systems, a real deadly sin
Q is for quashing emerging gun bills
The NRA motto? "The Status Quo Kills"
R for the rage that empowers someone
To take their revenge at the end of a gun
S for the Second Amendment that reads:
"More Freedom! More Guns!" what America needs
T, testimony on Capitol Hill
Forget about passing a gun safety bill
U, unrepentant, a man without care
That's NRA spokesman, the vile LaPierre
V for the victims gunned down yesterday
But it's business as usual for NRA
W for witless and Wayne LaPierre
Gun violence leaves families deep in despair
X marks the spot of each droplet of blood
Where victims were gunned down and fell with a thud
Y, yesterday, and for more days to come
We'll witness more massacres; don't become numb!
Z for the zealots all armed to the teeth
They laugh while we weep at the funeral wreath