Maya Beals | On 16, Dec 2019

Protect yourself from those who offend you, but leave the innocent alone. 

You carry your gun with hate in your heart already willing to tear families apart. Your AR is loaded and suspended on your shoulders, but for who? What man deserves 100 bullets all through his body…?

Protect yourself from those who offend you, but leave the innocent alone. 

You kill for what? For fun? For game? For fame? Why play with ones life like a toy, or like you can make the choice? We all mean something with purpose and blood flowing in our veins, but now that same blood in flowing downs our legs. Why do you think it’s okay to take life without reason? Oh, but wait, let me guess, lets blame it on your “mental illness” or your “mental instability.” See, because I have depression, and so do many of my friends, but you don’t  see us running around willing to sin to take innocent lives because of our chemical imbalance. Excuse me if I sound angry but I truly am, because you see… 

Protect yourself from those who offend you, but leave the innocent alone. 

That baby you just killed, what did she do wrong? I suppose she just looked at you wrong or maybe she reminds you of your abusive mother when she was younger that always used to hit you. I guess that was your trigger. Yes, your trigger. Trigger, trigger, trigger. Trigger this and trigger that, you pulled your trigger and that was that. At least before you pull your trigger, don’t aim it at my back and have the decency to look me in my face before you take my breath. See, I’m angry I’ll admit. That could have been my baby sister that just got hit. Because… 

Protect yourself from those who offend you, but leave the innocent alone. 

Your second amendment means nothing to me or to the families who have to bury all of their angels. It’s not fair that you can be free and carry your gun and muder as you please and we’re all trapped by the constant reminder of never seeing our loved ones again. And again and again, 

Protect yourself from those who offend you, but leave the innocent alone. 

Day in and day out we play games with the news and never document what’s important. We constantly ignore the fact that our children are dying. Being robbed of their childhoods and forced to live with haunting memories or glimpses of these traumas. Why doesn’t anyone talk about it? Why hasn’t anyone put a stop to it? We watch their blood spill everywhere and all you see on the news is who did it and not who it was done too.  We ignore the innocent and give fame to the guilty. But here we are again,

Protect yourself from those who offend you, but leave the innocent alone. 

The US has had 57 times as many school shootings as the other major industrialized nations combined. School shootings are a reality in America, an average of one a week just this year alone. I bet you didn’t know that, did you? You see, we fake our news stories and keep the most important parts in the dark. We hide what should be presented and acknowledged. Not for the fact of embarrassment but simply because no one cares enough. And yes, 

Protect yourself from those who offend you, but leave the innocent alone.