Is this an AR-15 gun story? Or, a repeating rifle history: Winchester Model 1873, “the gun you could load on Sunday and shoot all week long, “The Gun that Won the West?”
Is this an AR-15 gun story?
Or, a repeating rifle history:
Winchester Model 1873,
“the gun you could load on
Sunday and shoot all week long,
“The Gun that Won the West?”
Since music programs were cut,
ear-training is recognizing semi-
automatic gunfire v. fully automatic.
But children quickly tire of
high velocity, hollow point, hot lead
curriculum and “Good Guy With Gun”
mythology; quickly tire of Open Carry 101;
Stand Your Ground Studies; Bump Stock Basics;
‘Active Shooter’ drills, cafeteria floor camouflage;
quickly tire of capitalist circuses—money jungle
bullshit of political clowns juggling hearts
and prayers; wiping tears with one hand;
with the other, Signing Authorization For
Use of Military Force; pocketing payoffs,
while shooting themselves and condolences
out Wall Street cannons
Schoolchildren are learning—faster
than 30 rounds fired from AR-15s—about bi-
partisan Judases pocketing NRA silver; Learning that
ALL children need shot-free, strafe-free, bomb-free, drone-
free, coup-free schools— schools free from nuclear bullying…
Raymond Nat Turner © 2018 All Rights Reserved
Besides being Black Agenda Report's poet in residence, Raymond Nat Turner is an acclaimed poet and performing artist. Find much more of his work at http://upsurgejazz.com
Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce -- it’s time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movement’s social penetration.
Black rebellion brings insecurity to those in power, as editors, mayors and even long dead criminals are being called to account.
The protests in Hong Kong are led by an assortment of US-backed proxies who have separation from China as their principle goal.
Without justification, Louisville cops snuffed out the lives of Breonna Taylor and David McAtee, drawing that city into the national vortex of protest.
He so wide you can’t go ‘round him He so low you can’t go under him He so low that when he go High an ant can’t get under him; a rattlesnake’s shake’s
