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Torch of Democracy
What do these eleven enlightened states have in common: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming? They boast highly permissive "open-carry" laws,
Which allow all those who qualify for buying a firearm To brandish it, in public, unconcealed, Flaunt their Second Amendment privileges, Recently upheld in a Supreme Court ruling Reaffirming Americans' right to "keep and bear Arms."
How reassuring, knowing it's Dodge City redivivus And that Wyatt Earp, "Doc" Holliday, and Billy the Kid Can attend Teddy Kennedy's funeral, if they so choose, And do, legally, unto others, with impunity, As others would do unto them, only first, in the name of ideology,
Send anyone, in the crowd, who's not packing packing — Self-deputized protectors of the Common Man commonwealth, Vigilante enforcers like Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, Noble heroes in the mold of our Old West icons, Who lit the torch of democracy and kept it alive, with gunfire.
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