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Created on: September 01, 2008
Guns with wooden handles.
Guns with shafts of steel.
Are they truly dangerous?
You are badly misled, I feel.
Guns will hurt nobody.
Guns have no mind of their own.
Are they really able
to shoot with a heart of stone?
Guns of different colours,
Guns of different sizes.
They are not living creatures
filled with masked disguises.
Guns are not the problem.
Guns are not at all scary,
but some people who own them?
Of these, you should be wary.
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