the gun’s the ruler on the street

a right to bare the sheep preach

tyres screech, a siren sounds

another discharge of several rounds

as another life just ebbs away

a sad commodity of life today

adding to the grim statistics

of lives eroded by ballistics

guns are easy to obtain

to commit a family to the pain

of the taking of another's life

of a parent, child, husband or wife

a life is not disposable 

the loss of one's emotional 

the victims sees no tomorrow

those that take leave only sorrow 

a single life or genocide

another body to identify

a cop killer or killer cop

this murdering just has to stop

colour don't matter, black or white

blood is the same, a life's a life

when will the penny finally drop

that all this bloodshed has to stop

the laws an ass it needs to change

congress scared of lobby outrage

politicians should just all unite

to end bloodshed from gunfights

all too easy to pull the trigger

a nervous twitch or itchy finger

life is not a console game

society is not to blame

a life's a life and we have but one

shouldn't be ended by a gun