Right To Weapons Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

From age to age men discover
Their tools and weapons to survive
Men draw and execute their plans
And produce weapons or tools
to make life easier for survival.

These simple tools and weapons
Are developed, improved, perfected
Even extended to kill by the hundreds
In wars, alliances and betrayals
Sealed by creeds and vows of allegiance.

And the right to weapons is taken
As a human right to defend and protect life
Guarded by the law of the land
Mouthed and quoted by those who
Ever want to hold on to this right.

But enemies are defined by weapons
Weapons corrupt the corrupt power
And by weapons we can never be secure.


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December 28,2012


Following the debate on the right to weapons after the shooting of 20 small children and 7 adults in Connecticut, USA.