America as a gun ....

I came across the following this morning --- after 10 were slain in a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store --- a commentary in rhyme about how the United States increasingly is perceived in a world that once found much to admire here. 

And this is the morning, too, after Iowa's Repbulican-controlled Senate sent to Gov. Reynolds' desk a law that eliminates the requirement for both permit and background check for those who buy and sell handguns privately, without the involvement of a federally licensed dealer.

Just another morning in America, and Iowa, as we await mass shootings here.