It's NOT Rocket Science

All the president has to do

Is mention gun regulation that COULD work,

And what do we have? Thousands of paranoid

Gun-lovers coming out of the woodwork.

 

Can they calmly sit down for ONCE

And listen to a viable suggestion

And NOT madly run for their guns

And say the proposal is out of the question?

 

Ask them in a non-threatening manner

If they seriously recollect

That the president said he was taking their guns

Or anything else to that effect.

 

Say "Background checks. Listen again:

Background checks. NOT confiscation."

It's almost as though some guys confuse

Gun laws with the threat of castration.

 

We're talking common sense here, right?

We don’t want guns in the wrong hands.

But finding ways to control that has been

As hard as controlling the shifting sands.

 

Most Americans like the idea

Of background checks, according to polls.

It's just a few paranoid ones

That shoot the plan full of holes.

 

Why be held hostage by politicians

Held hostage in turn by the NRA?

If we want a safer America,

We must act now and not delay.

 

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