Every week it seems I read
some child has shot himself
or someone else
a sibling or a friend
last time that I looked
it was a three year old in Texas
killed himself with a pistol
some fool had left around

We blame the careless adult
who left the gun in reach
but perhaps the problem is
it's all too easy
people talk of gun rights
and what they mean is killing rights
the right to shoot some stranger
with your gun
some stranger who seems threatening
who might otherwise shoot you
because he found it easy to
go out and buy a gun
it's so easy now
to get a carry permit
join a patriotic rebel group
it's easy now
to get yourself a gun

some think that a civil war
is in the offing
we the people
should be armed and ready
for a fight
it sounds heroic and romantic
but anyone who's seen war close up
will be quick to tell you
that ain't right

And how many children have to die
before we change the laws and make it
harder to have guns around the home?
We call ourselves a Christian nation
can you imagine Jesus packing
heat