From age to age men discover <br />Their tools and weapons to survive <br />Men draw and execute their plans <br />And produce weapons or tools <br />to make life easier for survival. <br /> <br />These simple tools and weapons <br />Are developed, improved, perfected <br />Even extended to kill by the hundreds <br />In wars, alliances and betrayals <br />Sealed by creeds and vows of allegiance. <br /> <br />And the right to weapons is taken <br />As a human right to defend and protect life <br />Guarded by the law of the land <br />Mouthed and quoted by those who <br />Ever want to hold on to this right. <br /> <br />But enemies are defined by weapons <br />Weapons corrupt the corrupt power <br />And by weapons we can never be secure. <br /> <br /> <br />_________________ <br />December 28,2012 <br /> <br /> <br />Following the debate on the right to weapons after the shooting of 20 small children and 7 adults in Connecticut, USA.<br /><br />Elizabeth Padillo Olesen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/right-to-weapons/
