Under the Gun: How Much Longer

Another day
Another headline
Another body count
And I can’t keep track anymore.

Too many people
Too many lives
Have been wrenched away
Beaten
Crushed
Stolen

And yet we do nothing

We beg
And plead
And yell
And cry
And still we are ignored

Because the dollars lining
The pockets of Congress
Mean more than
The breath in our lungs

This piece is part of Under the Gun, a Rambler feature series on gun control & gun culture in the wake of mass shootings and the March for Our Lives. Read the other parts of the series here.