England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.
Brazil is football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona’s hand.
Germany, an oompah band.
America is a gun.
Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.
Japan is a thermal spring.
Scotland is a highland fling.
Oh, better to be anything
than America as a gun.-Brian Bilston
America is, of course, so much more than a gun. But, oh, we are too much a gun. And how sad that this is how much of the world sees us. How sad, despite the plain language to the contrary of its first phrase, that so many read the Second Amendment as if the second phrase stands alone. And the blood of our children flows from their bodies day after day after day.
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