The Traveling Carnival of Gun Violence

 The Traveling Carnival of Gun Violence

   by Danny C. Wash                                                            

The traveling carnival of gun violence is touring

the country and stops in one or two places in our 

country per week now for shows. This carnival

features guns, such as an AR-15 weapon of war,

that any young man can attend & use to shoot

and kill as many innocent children and adults

as they can shoot with a hundred rounds of 

bullets that completely destroys a person’s body

or simply blows their head off. The term

“carnival” comes from the medieval Latin term

“carne vale”which appropriately means “flesh, farewell,” 

which is what happens when the young men point their

AR-15 at you and pull the trigger. This carnival

travels with a license to kill furnished by the

Second Amendment, politicians, & gun sellers 

in the name of profit and political power. The

license is also enabled by those of the country 

who always blame the violence on something

other than their god of the gun, who they worship

at the altar of the Second Amendment. If you are one

of the enablers and don’t appreciate this poem, I say to

you, “good, lump it” and get out of the way of the rest of

America, who I hope is about to stand up and say,

“enough, the Second Amendment did not conceive

of a weapon that can quickly shoot hundreds of rounds 

and that it would be impossible to prevent because of this 

ill-conceived and poorly worded part of the Constitution.”

The cup of gun violence is almost full and for us to continue

to drink it is almost too much for the common citizen to bear.

Thoughts and prayers? Think about the above and pray that

you and your’s are not the next one that the carnival finds.