My opinion
"Darling"
My daddy once told me
"Guns may scare people
Guns may be deadly
but we have the right to own a gun
and those who say otherwise
don't understand why. . .
Your Great Great Great Granddaddy
Saved his family from some outlaws
with the presence of his gun
Your Great Aunt Rose
protected her virtue with a gun in had
Our cousin Lewis said to a man
You mess with that gal there again
I got this and I ain't afraid to use it
Honey our guns make sure we are safe"
I thought about that for a while
and then asked my Daddy
"What about bad men and women daddy?"
"Then Miss
we should have our guns to protect us
to show the world that our bad guys aren't the ones with guns
but the ones who are purposely violent
who hurt those who don't deserve it
Our Uncle Sam
That great man who deserves
all of our respect
made sure that we keep ourselves safe
and one of the ways he defended us from
the people who wanted to hurt us
was a way to defend ourselves
and I will be damned if I don't stand up for what I think"
And as my ten year old mind pondered the things that my daddy said
I remembered something said by my Great Grand Daddy
"Sweet Heart
a gun isn't a toy or fun or something you use to get your way
It's something to protect you
to provide for you
and trust me
I did kill someone in that war
and I did it with my gun
just so I could come back to your Great Grandma
so don't ever forget that those guns
the ones that everyone hates
let me raise my family. . ."
So if you want to listen to a simple girl from Utah
Tell you what she thinks
I think guns
let America become
the Great Nation
that it is
and let us
be raised in a place of freedom
And I'll be damned if I don't say it when I gotta chance.