It is said that guns do not kill
that only people do that deed.
In this I do really agree.
Without our technology
where would we be
somewhere lying helpless under a tree.
Guns like all technology
have their place
we only need to grow morally
along with technically
so I speak my case.
Guns do not kill
its people who pick up the gun.
It's people who pull the trigger.
It's people who do the deed.
So in this statement I agree
that guns do not kill.
It's people who do that deed.
Author notes
Guns do not kill people do.
Personally I am glad that Americans can have guns at home. I remember my history class very well... that one of the reasons that we won our battle between Great Britian and the colonies was because most of our colonies had their own guns and knew how to use them.
I don't necessarily like a lot of restrictions on gun control either because simple the 'good' citizen would follow these rules while the 'bad' citizine would just get them illegally on the streets. Allowing the 'good' citizen to be without protection from the bad.
Oh you say the cops are out there for our protection. Yeah sure... if you wait an hour or so til they get to you... and shhhh I guess you just tell the person breaking in... raping your kid, wife, whatever... hey stop cops will be here soon.
Now mind you... I don't like guns. Don't know the first thing about them. But that is my choice. We all have to make our own choices.
Just some of my thoughts on this very interesting contest.
Thanks for reading my thoughts. I mean no offense to anyone. These are just my thoughts and should be taken as such.
trekkergirl
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Comments
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this is cool
both my parents have guns (for rec. and defence)
good write
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i agree
i like this poem alot,it speaks the truth.
Keep writing you're awesome =]
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Thats true guns don`t shoot themselves. great write
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i agree with you.
the world would be a lot safer if more cops had guns, but then you have to consider the laws about citizens purchasing guns and all. of course we should have the right to have them. i'm not sure about the laws in the usa, but background checks, if they aren't necessary, probably should be. some control's probably necessary.
you kept restating yourself in the poem, but it was effective and drove the point home, as the old cliche goes. i liked this!
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sure
"kids will be big and bad by bringing bullets to the streets.
but to protect our precious children, we give guns to the police??"
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One thing I noticed when I moved to the states that I found absolutely crazy...was the fact guns are out on display in stores along with the rest of the merchandise. In some places, they're not locked up at all, simply packaged and on display for any young kid to snatch up and steal. It's one thing to have a gun for protection but in my opinion, the way they are so readily available is completely irresponsable. I personally would choose not to own a gun. People kill people, yeah... but guns make it a lot easier. i do like your poem though
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Gosh, this is such a great read that holds so much truth in it. It's a terrible reality that we have guns and that people use them for all of the wrong reasons. Great work here and congratulations on your trophy here!
Jeremy0826
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This is truly an awesome read. I do not allow guns in my house due to having teenagers; but I do believe one should be able to protect themselves. I have a friend that carries his gun with him and as long as it's not concealed it's legal. He is very big on having gun rights, which I absolutely understand. I do feel that alot of the guns end up in the wrong hands and we must try at all cost to prevent this; but in this country and with the cops ... yeah!
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I do have guns in the house but no children. My husband thinks I should learn to shoot but I don't want to. Its all about choices
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Great poem. I agree 100% and think that you express your opinion firmly but appropriately (as in you weren't insulting others opinions). Very good! Also, really enjoyed the "helpless under a tree" line. Brilliant.
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I thought I commented on this! I have read it a few times and your words ring with truth! Well done! perfectly written!
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so true, its a pitty how technology is also being abuse, but then every human dating from the beginnings have always abused what is best for them, not surprising how it still lingers till now but it really is a shame.
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very well wrote, and very true indeed, keep up the good work
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i agree. people kill people. as much as i hated history class, because it never really told true history, but it did have its few highlights. love this poem
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Set your faces on stun...
Great piece, profound, poignient & very valid in the present climate...
Like you so eloquently expressed, technology is a 2 edged sword & our world is littered with both wonderous & destructive examples of its use...
A great piece...
Well done!!!
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I like the way you think!
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Very true. I love the fourth stanza. This is an awesome write
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So true
I would like to see if the coruption keeps up the way it is to turn all guns into paint ball guns and then what a colorful place this world would be and no one would be killed with them again . This world would turn into a huge enternet game and maybe just maybe the killings would stop . There will always be those who will sell to those without a mind for that allmighty dollar just as they do with drugs .Myself with drugs I would like for them to come out with something and call it what is most used today yet only its a sleeping medication so we could truly see just how many of our people are users and could see its taking this country over
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Whoa you are awesome just for that.
When I first looked at the poem I thought it was going to be about anti-guns. But I gave it a chance and this was a great poem!
I do agree guns dont kill people, people kill people.
I have never even held a gun but i do believe this statement. And I agree with a lot of things that you say in your poem.
Its a never ending feud it seems with guns and everything else.
But it takes a strong indivdual to speak of the truth and heart of things.
Well said and well done I say!!!!
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i agree with you. a weapon is a high expression of freedom. respect for the gun and for people and proper training are key.
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I agree with you. During the war, I slept and ate with my guns. hand grenades, hanging, machinegun over one shoulder, 45 strapped to hip, automatic rifle on the other shoulder, with many many clips of ammo. Never wanted to be caught and not shoot back. where we were, always had one in the chamber, no time to load. Since the service, never used a gun, never one in the house.*happy
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This is, indeed an excellent piece! A very deep and poerful write full of truth and meaning. I really enjoyed this. Congratulations on the silver trophy. It is well deserved, I must say!
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This argument will never be settled.
For every person that takes one view there is one that takes the other. The rhythm is a little jerky in spots but I realize the message was the main point of the poem. As to my position on the subject. I was raised with guns. I hunted and did a lot of target shooting even as child. When I moved from the country to the city I carried my guns. They kept me from getting robbed twice. They kept me from getting beat to death by a group of "gang bangers" once and my older brother from the same fate another time. Then in 1998 I was target shooting with a friend. I bent over to pick something up and dropped my had gun. When it hit the ground it went off. It shot me Point Blank in the chest ricocheted off my leather jacket and sternum bone then entered my throat. To make a long story short it bounced around in me like a pinball. It hit a vertebra and caused paralyisis. I almost didn't make it. Now I'm lucky to be alive even though I'm in a wheelchair. So I have to tell you guns can kill people without the person intending to do any harm. Now how do you think I feel about guns? Would you be surprised to find out I still have my guns and I still shoot? A gun is a tool. You are correct that in the right hands guns have their place. You are definitly correct that gun laws don't even slow criminals down in regards to getting guns. It's much easier for a criminal to get a gun than it is for honest citizen to get one leagally. So there's my opinion. Make of it what you will. -
An excellent piece. Congratulations on your trophy. I think your notes also said as much as your poem.
Australia doesn't have the same problems with guns...yet!
I understand all your reasoning in this, buit still 'sit on the fence' with regard to guns and gun control.I know I couldn't bear to own one, but...
Congrats again Well deserved!
gaylene
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Being a cop, I can relate...availability of guns to uneducated people is a dangerous thing.
Be well
Slayer
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yes, I agree - banning guns will not solve the problem because the right people, who use them for the right purposes, won't have them but the wrong people will always get them.
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The latest Finnish school shooting just goes to show that sometimes, the wrong people are allowed to possess guns, and they use it in the most heinous ways possible... I agree with you- guns were invented for the purpose of protection and defence, but it's been wholly misused by people... and your poem speaks volumes at such an appropriate time (which is actually most of the time, considering the warped world we're living in right now).
Anyway, great write!
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I keep forgeting these guys. LOL
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This is a wonderful poem with loads of truth to it. I personally don't have a gun only because I would probably shoot myself. But I know that criminals are better armed then the police and when my alarm went off accidentally the police took 25 minutes to arrive and stated it was okay because they were in the neighborhood. This tells me I'm on my own in an emergency situation if it took that long for them to arrive. Thinking about it maybe I should learn. Congratulations on the Silver a great write. God Bles, Jo-ann
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i have several handguns, keep them all loaded, and i have a tactical shotgun, a .45-70 ... i know how to use them all expertly, and I have several razor sharp knives and i am an expert in using them .. i am a competition handgunner, I make my own ammo and have studied ballistics for years, and the dead body of a friend who didn't have a gun and some guys knew it and so they used their on him and his family ... i don't hate violence, it is necessary and good sometimes ... the one who wants to take away your gun is the same coward who won't be there to back you up when you need them, but will want you to help them out ... my handguns are custom designed by me and i can knock your nose off your face at 200 yards with my custom .41 mag. I don't mind hurting people, if I have to I do. they mean nothing to me. If you enter my home, or my car and i am there you will die and iwill sleep well that night.
statistics shows clearly, unarmed states have the highest gun crimes .. after they outlaw guns, not before ...
crimes used with guns are already illegal but the anti gun people are actually fascists who want to tell you that police will help you .. they are idiots ... period. most of my friends look down on me for my views and I will look down on them if they ever need a weapon and were to cowardly and foolish to learn how to defend themselves ... I do not consider them good friends, because they have decided that I do not deserve their protection and so I won't help them if they ever need it.
i know a criminal, he moved to a state where they outlawed handguns completely ... he loves it there ... just loves it ... he tells me his victims are ripe for the picking. Nice. gun control people have blood on their hands and they are no friends of mine, not when it counts.
there are citizens and there are subjects.
Moqui Takoda
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Congrats on earning the Silver Cup!
My dad raised us with a house full of guns. My favorite was the German Lugar, sleek, automatic, hold the trigger and that baby would shoot nine times. Daddy was a 17 year Army Vet., WWII and Korea. He taught us to respect people, and guns, and taught each of us to shoot (boys and girls) when we turned 13.
My younger brother was shot and killed in 1981 by an idiot with a gun. Shot in the back of the head. That is cowardly! See, my problem with guns is the fact that they get into murderer's hands. In that, who gives a damn whether it's people or guns, death is death.
Sorry for the rant but I hate guns in the hands of killers. But then that's what guns are made for. Daddy said; "when you get it from the gun drawer, aim it and make sure not to miss the mark..." Sigh!
You did well here poet, my bad!
Much Love ♥
Renee
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Bad people with guns kill
My argument is if there were no guns in the first place, then good and bad people would not be able to get them. Our governments allow guns to exist because in a kind of sick way, guns help keep the population down. Why do you think we have wars, why do companies continue to build fast cars when in most countries it's against the law to even drive that fast. One could argue that knifes kill just the same, but it's a lot easier to pull the trigger from a distance than up close and personal with a knife. Having said that, more people it seems die from knife attacks then bullets. Banning knifes and guns is not the answer, education most certainly is. In this society we live, the right to own a gun should be allowed as long as you're not crazy. Finally I agree that guns do not kill, people do who have control of that gun, And finally again, thanks for your comment on my poem.
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sorry I just can't agree with that argument because people have been killing others since the beginning of our time on this earth. We use different kinds of things to do it. But it is in our nature to kill to survive. Kill for pleasure. Kill for protection. We kill period.
Why blame technology for something that is in our nature. I believe that no matter what happens technology is a good thing. That guns have been a benefit to us as well as a hinderance.
We can label guns, MRI, heart medications, and a toaster all in the same pot if we think about it. It's all in how we use it.
thanks for commenting on my poem.
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confusion...
First you said, "It is said that guns do not kill
that only people do that deed.
Sorry but I can't really agree."
But then at the end you said,
"So in this statement I agree
that guns do not kill.
It's people who do that deed."
So is it a case of, while writing this poem, you convinced yourself to change your outlook? Or that you became confused in your beliefs?
Aside fromt hat, you put up a few good thoughts, although I'd be straight up of the opinion that people kill, not guns - it's when guns get into the hands of those that don't know what they're doing that it gets more complicated, for my opinion anyway
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A great controversial topic that is and always will be a topic of discussion whenever a war is raged or a massacre occurs.As a Vietnam Veteran I sit on a double sided sword
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Nice! I like the way it rhymes, and the way it flows. However, the first and the last stanza take completely different viewpoints; you began with "I can't agree" and ended with "I agree."
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you know you were the only one who caught this. I didn't that is for sure. I'll look it over and see if I can fix it. Thanks
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Wonderful
A very insightful and well expressed creation. So perfect for the prompts. Best of luck in the contests.
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thanks glad you liked it.
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I still see a lot of errors; mostly in spelling which tells me that you didn't edit even after a previous judge asked you to. The poem is more of an editorial really; preaching about gun control. I do appreciate the sentiments. thank you for entering.
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If you could please point out the errors I would love to try and fix them. Thanks for your help.
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It seems as if they have been corrected. Now all I see is one apostrophe missing in the word it's. Maybe it was me ....
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The reason it is written as such is because the first contest I entered was about Gun control... thus the title and subject matter.
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Do you mind telling me exactly where the spelling errors are???? I mean I have looked at this poem and I personally see no errors in spelling unless you are referring to my It's and its. But even those I thought were okay. And yes, I did edit it after the 'other' judge asked me to. We discussed it quite a bit. I changed a few things. And that judge actually liked the poem. But please do let me know what are the spelling errors. Perhaps I am just missing them because I am to close to this poem.... You know sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees type of thing. Thanks for any and all help in this matter.
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Good poem Trekker. Your right. We have enough gun laws. We need to hang those that use them for crime. If we did the ACLU would go wild. It wouldn't stop gun crime, but would damn sure put a kink in it. And no repeat offenders.
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thanks for your comment. I don't believe that the right to own a gun be taken away.
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Sorry. Just read your comments and just wanted to say. You go girl. Say it out loud. I'm listening!
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thanks
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Very well said. My man says exactly the same thing when he hears news reports like that. It was right to the point and i am sure a lot of thinking people would very much agree with you. Good luck and my best wishes.
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yeah my husband does too. That's probably where I picked up a lot of my opinions from.
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Thanks you can tell I am from illinois. We are a state that believes in guns cuz we have a lot of hunting and state parts and all around here.
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really? according to my research illi have one of the worst states in the union for gun control .. rifles, yeah, you can even have those in canada, but in illi if you even own a handgun you'll go to jail .. and you can't make your own ammo because most of the legistlators are in the pockets of the large ammo manufacturers .... this is not a criticism, but I was just wondering if my research is faulty ..
curious about this ... rifles are pretty much not the issue in gun control controversies, as handguns are the issue because those are what we use to protect ourselves in most situations, not rifles ... but were you talking about rifles? I think you may have been. No state in the union controls rifes that I know of except autos aren't allowed or bigger magazines for the semi autos.
anyhow, handguns are my area of concern.
I am correct about illinois regarding handguns?
do you know. really curious about this.
your admiring
Moqui
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Oh, how I loved your author's comments. I believe that if one does know how to use a gun properly, and purchases it, strictly for self protection, knows how to properly use it, and keep it away from where a child could possibly gain access and accidently kill, it is alright. BUT lessons in proper use should be a MUST!
Cops are being found to use their "power" and kill without thinking before pulling that trigger. Some carry a big prejudicial chip on their shoulders, and wield their power just to prove a point! Many are alcoholics, who drink when off duty, then abuse their wives. Some even kill them!
Now your verse:Since you are writing in sentences, I would like you to edit and use the proper punctuation, where needed. Plenty of time.
Your title is verse appropriate! That is always a hard one! You aced it! Your first stanza and last stanza don't match. I like your verse, so please take the time to edit. You are a wonderful poetess, whose thoughts are very deep.
I truly appreciate your taking the time to write for this contest! I am not giving out real clappies at this time, but your poem warrants the icons!
Linda
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Thanks for your help. Hope what I did improved the poem. And thanks for the kind words.
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A brave choice of words and I liked and admired your thoughts and honesty.
First in the poem and also your AN
Freedom of choice
Best wishes to you
Julie
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Thanks for the good words on my poem. I appreciate them. And I do believe greatly in freedom of choice... but also, to step up to the plate and admit that you do have a choice and quit blaming everyone else for your decisions.
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Interesting!! :)
Something about this poem is very interesting. I like it's gentle flow albeit it's 'sharp' topic. That's impressive!! Wonderful job here. I would just revise it if I were you 'coz you have a slight mistake here and there but nothing serious Keep on writing!!
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Hope my editing got rid of the slight mistakes here and there. I really did enjoy hearing all the wonderful comments on this poem. I appreciate it.
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