{"id":11083,"date":"2018-02-26T05:16:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T11:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=11083"},"modified":"2018-02-25T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:21:18","slug":"your-weekly-politickle-rabid-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/your-weekly-politickle-rabid-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Politickle: RABID RESPONSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:<\/strong><\/p>\n

RABID RESPONSE
\nWe hear calls for the banning of guns
\nEvery time a mass murderer stuns,
\nBut if bombs, cars, or knives
\nHave claimed multiple lives,
\nWe hear calls for the banning of guns.<\/p>\n

\n

From the archive<\/em><\/p>\n

THINK!
\nBefore going all in, why not pause
\nTo research pros and cons of your \u201ccause\u201d?
\nFor example, inquire
\nWhy the murder rate\u2019s higher
\nIn the cities with gun<\/span>-control laws.
\n(2017)<\/p>\n

ARMS & THE MANDATE
\nWhat the Second Amendment defends
\nIs a right on which all else depends:
\nTo resist subjugation
\nOf ourselves and our nation
\nAnd live free as our Maker intends.
\n(2016)<\/p>\n

PROTECTED CLASS
\n\u201cWhen all private gun<\/span> ownership\u2019s barred,
\nI\u2019m sure giving up mine won\u2019t be hard:
\nI\u2019ll be safe as before,
\nAnd perhaps even more \u2013
\n\u2019Cause I\u2019ll have a well-armed bodyguard.\u201d.
\n(2013)<\/p>\n

CONTROLLING PERSONALITY
\nThough the news out of Newtown was grim,
\nMayor Bloomberg\u2019s reaction was dim.
\nWhy we keep and bear arms?
\nTo respond to alarms
\nAnd protect us from tyrants like him.
\n(2012)<\/p>\n

FULL DISCLOSURE
\nA stripper deemed too independent
\nWas called into court as defendant;
\nShe said of her charms:
\n\u201cI\u2019ve the right \u2018to bare arms\u2019;
\nIt\u2019s enshrined in the Second Amendment.\u201d
\n(2002)<\/p>\n

TOO SAFE
\n\u201cWake up, Dear, go downstairs, and look!
\nI heard a strange noise in the nook!\u201d
\n\u201cWhere\u2019s the key to the lock
\nOn my .380 Glock?\u201d
\n\u201cOh, I hung it somewhere on a hook!\u201d
\n(1999)<\/p>\n

WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE
\nAnyone who cannot be persuaded
\nThat our gun<\/span> rights must not be degraded
\nShould inquire of the Swiss,
\nWho are armed and don\u2019t miss,
\nWhy it is that they\u2019re never invaded.
\n(1998)<\/p>\n

BETTER READY THAN DEAD
\nHere\u2019s a survey that needs to be done
\nOn the merits of having a gun<\/span>:
\nAsk anyone harmed
\nBy a thug who was armed
\nIf he wishes he, too, had had one.
\n(1997)<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s limerick<\/em><\/p>\n

JIM RAT
\nComey\u2019s IQ may be higher
\nAnd that maybe makes him slyer
\nThan us common folk,
\nBut he\u2019s still a joke \u2013
\nAnd a pathological liar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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