[Newspoetry] 2nd Amendment Absurdum

[DL Emerick]

NRA members unite.

You have a personal right
to own nuclear weapons.

Yes, it may be true that
strict constructionism
would say that your rights
are limited to militia rights,
the right of a State to resist
the superior force of a Nation,
but then is it wrong
if Illinois or Alabama has a bomb,
a nuclear force to fight with?

After all, we oppose tyranny,
we enjoy states' rights,
the right of free people
in each and every state to be free,
according to their own ideas,
of what freedom is to be.

I have the right to own
a nuclear weapon if I want,
for I have a constitution
that says I may if I can,
a right to bear and keep arms.

I have the right to own a tank,
I have the right to a battleship,
to own cruise missiles and UAVs,
to own as many nukes as I please.

It's all there, guaranteed,
by the US constitution.

And, while you may not like it,
I thus have a choice
to destroy Chicago or New York,
in pro-active defensive,
I assure you, of me.