Constitutional Caliber

Of all Amendments, it is reckoned
The best and holiest is the Second:
No enemy would dare to sack
Our homesteads, while we're free to pack;
Nor Government, with all its bombs,
Dare to dishonor men or Moms.
No liberty is counted higher
Than semi-automatic fire,
While communistic safety checks
Would be a halter for our necks
And, should their threats be once fulfilled,
Might very well get someone killed.
We're great and first and free and strong...
Near sixty dead? Lord, what went wrong?

Chester Schott XVII