Bang!

A classmate brought a gun to school

Back when my son was six.

He showed it to some friends,

Which brought a teacher to the mix.

 

The loaded weapon was removed;

The police, of course, were called.

The news made all the papers

And the parents were appalled.

 

The child was transferred; no one

Ever heard from him again

And fortunately, nobody

Was shot or hurt back then.

 

Yet just this week, another boy,

His mom’s gun in his hand,

Shot his first grade teacher in the chest;

How can we understand?

 

The news reports said no one

Of that age did that before,

But that classmate of my son’s way back

Can only underscore

 

How we’ll never learn that guns in homes

Quite simply don’t belong

And allowing access to a child

Is criminally wrong.