Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine all those children - dead -
who deserved to be playing today.
Imagine all the friends they would have made,
all the things they would have learned.
Imagine their parents spared the horrors of grief without end
for the child they loved.
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
Imagine Martin Luther King realizing his dream in real time.
Imagine President John F. Kennedy growing older in the White House.
Imagine his brother, Robert, raising his many children to follow in his footsteps.
Imagine Mahatma Gandhi becoming a wise elder on the world stage today.
Imagine words of those who survived a bullet:
"Getting shot hurts." President Ronald Reagan
"What I was I will never be again" press secretary, James Brady*
"Political violence is terrifying, I know". Congresswoman Gabriel Gifford
"I did stand, with a majority of the white people, for the separation of the schools. But that was wrong, and that will never come back again". Governor George Wallace
“Wait, wait, wait” then fist pumps to crowd. He mouths “fight” three times – a move met with cheers by the crowd".** Former President Donald Trump
Imagine words of those who pulled the trigger:
“Sic semper tyrannis” (“Thus always to tyrants,”)*** John Wilkes Booth upon killing President Abraham Lincoln
"I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie".**** Lee Harvey Oswald
"This was evil in my heart. I wanted to be somebody and nothing was going to stop that." Mark David Chapman.*****
On 8 December 1980, John Lennon was shot four times in the back outside of his apartment building in New York City.
He was 40 years old.
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only oneI hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
imagine if we had a real conversation about guns in America . . .
I wonder if you can?
*Federal Background Check law known as the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
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