While I enjoy good poetry, I recoil when it's nothing more than promotion of The Agenda.
The picture the poem below paints is that life is cheap, guns are readily available, and we should do something.
But only about the guns.
No real look at the “whys” of a society that spits out young people who can't do any better than to work at a Safeway at 3 am, barely eking out a subsistence. Often living with their parents or having to co-exist with roommates. Nor is the objective to go deeper, what creates people who think they are justified, and/or have no alternative, than to rob and kill.
Read carefully. The only real "solution" suggested is getting rid of the guns, and starting with the population control, er “gun control”, indoctrination early.
With the above in mind, take a minute or two to read the poem and a few more minutes to think about it. It's good writing. But it's also good propaganda, especially when we still don't train our youth to read such works and ask questions, such as: What is the goal, what is the point? Instead, young people in the government indoctrination camps ("schools") are conditioned to passively read, watch television, go on the internet, and blindly accept the programming, to uncritically swallow whatever is put before them.
On queue! Thought provoking yet simple in context. Sad. Isn't the solution to this mess simple?