Abstract
The author uses poetry to speak back to the ubiquitous talk, use, and idolization of guns in the United States and in her personal life. Scenes from a family Memorial Day picnic, runs in pro-gun country where it is common to stockpile guns and make ammo and attend conceal and carry classes at the local church, to hearing the news about the Orlando nightclub massacre while on a family vacation with her pro-National Rifle Association (NRA) family show the author’s personal struggle of how to act in her personal life when family members possess radically different and contrasting political values.
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