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What will it finally take? How many have to die? Until you’ll fix the problem As the gun deaths multiply. Women, children, babies These innocent lives are lost How much is a life really worth When the NRA decides the cost. They use John Lott’s fake studies His “facts” are quite untrue But facts don’t really matter In the hatred that they spew. And yet you say you’re pro-life But that doesn’t mean a thing The monumental hypocrisy Within the alt-right wing. As the corpses pile up And the death toll steadily climbs We wait for your response As they chalk the body lines. And so we wait… And wait… And wait… But each day’s a day too late. Between the Las Vegas massacre and the First Baptist Church slaughter in Texas just over a month apart…nothing continues to change with regards to gun reform.
https://thinkprogress.org/debunking-john-lott-5456e83cf326/ https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/28/gun-researcher-john-lott-offers-false-firearm-s/196621 http://www.factcheck.org/2012/12/gun-rhetoric-vs-gun-facts/ CDC has been wary of studying gun issues after NRA lobbyists convinced Congress to cut into its funding after a series of studies in the mid-1990s were viewed by the NRA as advocating for gun control. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/us/26guns.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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Poetry by: AsherahAlthough she was selectively edited out of the Bible two thousand years ago, she raises her voice for women today in hopes of a better tomorrow, as she makes waves of change, one poem at a time. Archives
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