Triggers Seem To Be Everywhere Nowadays

Some are metaphorical, as in literature
which the young seem to need warnings
about what they encounter on the page,
as if reading were some risky activity
where words are weapons that have
to have safety catches put on them.

Other triggers are invisible,
and have been left hidden,
how well I remember my parents
used television as a child minder
and not knowing what I watched,
that I mistook for 'mature adult viewing'.

But the triggers that most need
a safety catch on them are those
on guns, in 'the land of the free'
where 'the right to bear arms'
is not an invite to roll up your sleeves
on sunny days, but the right,
backed by corporate gun sales advocates,
to replace the government when the citizen
wants to believe that gov't needs replacing.

However incompetent government gets
replacing it with gun based anarchy will solve nothing