Tyranny Theory

While it is a cute theory

That an armed populace

Can defend itself against

A tyrannical government

Even those nudniks know

That in the back of their mind

If they attack the individuals

Representing the oppressors

They are still fellow humans

(Besides reversing the roles

Would make themselves the

“Enemy” they seek to destroy)

Therefore the catch 22

Likelihood of engaging

Diminishes rapidly and is

Basically reduced to

Useless slogans

Buoying emotions

“Live free or die”

“Don’t tread on me”

“I’ll give up my gun when

They pry it from my cold

Blah, blah blah blah blah”

There it was in black and white

State power murdering a civilian

Not because he was ordered to

But because he could

Where was the armed populace

To defend the civilian then

Poof, nowhere to found

Save, wrapped so well

In its flag blanketed

Second ammendment theory

It can’t see the forest

Through the trees