Domestic Abuse Predictor of Mass Shootings

Miners deep underground are to great dangers exposed

Especially gas unseen by the eyes, unsmelled by the nose

Often they used a canary in a cage to predict

When concentrations of gas would death or injury inflict

Advance warning when the canary fell over that it was time to the shaft vacate

As we mourn once again for the victims of mass shootings that seem not to abate

There may be another canary that may other mass shootings predict

Might just quell the Blues who are on the war path to law abiding citizens’ guns restrict

There is a wave of mass shootings far too many sweeping across the land

Certain traits of the shooters seem to with the mass shootings go hand in hand

In over half of the mass shootings there is a history of domestic abuse by a male

Too often the beaten wife is fearful and the culprit does not go to jail

A ticking time bomb of resentment and anger like the ice berg under the surface mostly unseen

Waiting to explode to punish his spouse, showing his power to create the scene of all crime scenes

If the spouse calls the police and to jail in cuffs he is sent

Nothing there in terms of anger management to keep future confrontations non violent

Only the slap on the wrist of a ban on future gun ownership

Which in Kelley’s case, proof positive so easy to under the radar slip

Another canary might well be a male, Kelley, whose trait was to cruelly animals beat

Up the ante that soon, very soon for the spouse and nearby innocents a mass shooting to greet

Guns kill but those with mental issues of rage, bias, and helplessness

Kill with a vengeance when they crack under real or imagined stress

Too many of us when the signs of an unstable man are in plain sight

Either do not want to get involved or would rather take flight

Or maybe, just maybe, the signs of behavior of an impending shooting spree

To their untrained eyes the looming danger of a mass shooting they cannot foresee

We must learn to know what behavior seems dangerous and completely out of place

Ere we are all condemned to have our lives be under the reality of deadly shootings forced to embrace

© November 7, 2017 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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