“We Need To Ban It”

 Many a person has unjustifiably shot another.

“We need to ban guns.”

Many an Antisemite burned alive his Jewish brother,

Yet who has ever said, “We need to ban fire”?

Many a cruel person has left a pet to die in the hot sun,

Yet who has ever said, “We need to ban owning pets”?

Many a drunk person claims, “The alcohol made me…”—

By the way, the 18th Amendment was repealed in 1933.

Many an abusive parent has drowned daughters and sons,

Yet who has said, “We need to ban water”?

Or “We need to ban becoming mothers and fathers”. 

Many a malicious person blames a pill

Yet who has ever said, “We need to ban meds”?

Far easier is nonetheless to blame the tool

Than to blame the negligent or brazen fool.

Also imagine, if you will 

A world in which nobody could hunt for meat—

Imagine the actions that one would take to eat!—

Or a world in which nobody could defensively “pack heat”—

What of those whom are unable to be quick on their feet?—

Or a world which was already dark as it is figuratively—

No fire means no man-made electricity—

Or a world without cats, dogs, and occasional glasses of wine

As well as water—how many would die as they pine 

For companionship and “a little wine for the stomachon”

As they waste away in pain and sickness due to thirst?

Remember that there would also be no medication,

So the anguish would just be all the worse.

If “we need to ban it”—whatever “it” one would desire

To ban—instead of punish whomever commits crimes,

Then we need to put ourselves in Hell on Earth in no time—

And self driven into illness on a perpetually-cold lonely night

We need to get an idea of what Hell on Earth is really like.

I myself would rather that we start blaming the fool

Than enable him or her in blaming the tool.