"Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov — two students whose lives were taken by g*n violence at Brown University" (Facebook report)
Zuckerberg's Sucker got it right. The problem was goon violence...
Young Ella Cook of Mountain Brook,
the pride of Birmingham,
went to Brown University
as meek as any lamb,
the only weapons at her side
her family's respect,
and faith that God would be her guide
her honor to protect.
Into a clutter of huddled buildings
right at the campus's gun-free core
slithered a man, a forbidden firearm,
a brain that saw the whole world as war.
Where Ella and a dozen classmates
gathered just to cram
their brains with facts the night before
the end-of-term exam,
the good and bright and young and green
from all the world around,
standing unarmed by open windows
the killer easily found.
A bang! and a clink! and the window shattered.
The students didn't even know to drop.
They'd been taught that everyone knew they mattered.
The murderer fired and did not stop.
What Northerner had the fortitude
to guard these innocent ones?
What Northerner had the common sense
to know we can't just ban guns?
Nobody stopped him! He fired again!
Like plastic bottles, down
the children went on the bloody floor.
He giggled like a clown.
Down on the floor Ella Cook lay dying.
Did she look out to the evening star,
thoughts to the Star of Bethlehem flying?
Did she remember her home so far?
At last the murderer felt potent
as he'd felt long ago
and in the gloaming's gloom he danced
a step in the scanty snow,
and shouted a blasphemy against
the Name of the Merciful One,
and ran off rejoicing in the evil
he that day had done.
Miles away, then, a man self-murdered.
Was he the slayer of Ella Cook?
Nearer, a man disappeared more quietly
from university registry book.
Young Ella put faith in the hearts of men,
and for that faith she died.
No one ever told her she could defend
others from men's rage and pride.
Not taught to carry or use a weapon
she died like a silly sheep.
All the flags in Alabama fly low
and all the mothers weep.
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