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| The families of victims grieve near Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a gunman opened fire on school children and staff in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Adrees Latif |
In a landmark announcement, yesterday’s breaking news, licenses in Florida to conceal and carry, will reach one million, who’s willing to parry, as gun owners may also choose, to Stand Their Ground, and who will defend the dead victims found; who will speak for little children, in kindergarten class, who dead and dying in numbers amass, who clutching crayons and teddy bears, will carry horror in numbered years, who can no longer say, what we learned in Newton today, as gun fire boomed, and tiny bodies fell, who will give witness to what they can tell, what they know and what they saw, who will add to the numbered law?
Lucille Gang Shulklapper is a poet , fiction writer , workshop leader, mother, and grandmother.