Songs that Advocate for Gun Control...Please add your own.

[malchickiwick]

This song came up during an iPod shuffle the other day. This is from 1984!! And it's from a British band basically telling us Americans how idiotic we are about guns. Again, this was 1984. Consider what Freddie would make of us now!!

One other; this is back in 1975 when even Southern Hill Williamses supported common-sense gun restrictions:

Others?

[maveric]

1. Those were the two I was thinking of.

[mainstreetonce]

2. What Are We Making Weapons For?

John Denver

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?lyrics=10947

[Heartstrings]

3. Lawyers, guns and money....Warren Zevon

[retread]

4. This one comes to mind.

[nikatnyte]

5. This one qualifies, I believe

"I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats--based on an actual school shooting in California.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People

A deceivingly dark song given its peppy, upbeat melody.

[retread]

7. Steve Earle -- Devil's Right Hand

[rocktivity]

8. Bullet (Bon Jovi)

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9. For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield)

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[Thyla]

10. Gun control and more...

Settle in for the next 18 minutes.

[rocktivity]

12. Would you settle for settling in for 12 minutes more?

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[loyalsister]

11. It's sort of disjointed and convoluted...

But it opens with the outrage I wish would see-hear more. Gotta love the Walmart slam, too.

[demmiblue]

13. Concrete Blonde - God Is A Bullet

[GreenEyedLefty]

14. I thought of Saturday Night Special too.

[tenderfoot]

15. Celebrate the Bullet

Celebrate the bullet,
Put your finger on the trigger,
But you don’t have to pull it,
'Cos you know it won’t bring them,
Back to you, back to you.

Celebrate the bullet,
But you have to snigger,
You told ‘em all to shove it,
‘Cos you know it won’t bring them,
Back to you, back to you.

Celebrate the bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet.
Celebrate the bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet.
Celebrate the bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet.
Celebrate the bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet.

Celebrate the bullet,
Put your finger on the trigger,
But you don’t have to pull it,
‘Cos you know it won’t bring them
Back to you, back to you.

Celebrate the bullet,
It all seems to get much bigger,
Do you really have to prove it,
‘Cos you know it won’t bring them,
Back to you, back to you.

Celebrate the bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet.
Celebrate the bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet.
Celebrate the bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet.
Celebrate the bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet.

[icymist]

16. Zombie

Zombie
The Cranberries
Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken
And the violence caused such silence
Who are we mistaking?
But, you see it's not me
It's not my family
In your head, in your head
They are fighting
With their tanks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns
In your head in your head they are crying
In your head
In your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie, ei, ei
What's in your head?
In your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie ei, ei, ei, oh do do do do do do do do
Another mother's breaking
Heart is taking over
When the violence causes silence
We must be mistaken
It's the same old thing since 1916
In your head, in your head
They're still fighting
With their tanks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns
In your head, in your head they are dying
In your head
In your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie, ei, ei
What's in your head?
In your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie ei, ei, ei, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ei ei oh

[bunt homer]

17. American Skin

[gopiscrap]

44. welcome to DU

[bunt homer]

46. Thanks

And the GOP is crap!

[Codeine]

18. Consolidated were generally about as subtle as

sledgehammer to the forehead, and this song is no exception. From 25 years ago, “Tool and Die”.

[demmiblue]

22. Ah, Consolidated.

I have been tempted in the past to post a few of their songs to fuck with MRA types and vegan/vegetarian haters.

[Codeine]

23. Consolidated song-writing process;

“Hey guys, I’ve been reading ‘The Sexual Politics of Meat.’ We should write a song based on this.”

“Great idea! What should we do about lyrics?”

“Let’s just read from ‘The Sexual Politics of Meat.’ Just grab some passages right out of the book.”

“I like it! What should we call it?”

“Hmmmm. . . maybeee, The Sexual Politics of Meat?”

“Fucking brilliant! Next song!”

[demmiblue]

25. Lol!

[icymist]

19. Cold Dead Hand with Jim Carrey

[icymist]

20. SNL does guns

[icymist]

21. I Just Fucking Shot Myself - The Musical

[Codeine]

24. Oh. My. Goodness.

That’s amazing!!

[DinahMoeHum]

26. On the more local, folkie scene in my area. . .

[tomp]

27. With a Gun- Steely Dan, nt

[Pachamama]

28. Bang Bang (Nancy Sinatra)

[Heartstrings]

29. Bullet and a Target. (Citizen Cope)

[mia]

30. Metallica "One" inspired by "Johnny got his Gun"

The fourth track on Metallica’s classic, …And Justice for All, this song is based on the novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. There, Joe Bonham, a soldier in World War I, is hit by a landmine explosion that takes away his limbs and face, and becomes a prisoner in his own body – Joe lost his senses and can’t communicate, but is still kept alive by the medical crew. Thus the lyrics follow his plea to be put out of his misery.

A specific passage that inspired the song is:

How could a man lose as much of himself as I have and still live? When a man buys a lottery ticket you never expect him to win because it’s a million to one shot. But if he does win, you’ll believe it because one in a million still leaves one. If I’d read about a guy like me in the paper I wouldn’t believe it, cos it’s a million to one. But a million to ONE always leaves one. I’d never expect it to happen to me because the odds of it happening are a million to one. But a million to one always leaves one. One.

“One” marked the first time Metallica did a music video for their songs. The video featured footage from the film

[Crunchy Frog]

31. Happiness is a warm gun.

The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill.

[Norbert]

32. Guns of Umpqua by Drive by Truckers

This was written about the mass murder at Umpqua Community College 10.01.15

[aikoaiko]

33. Gang of Four's Armalite Rifle (i.e., AR-15)

Armalite rifle police and ira
Armalite rifle use it everyday
Breaks down easy fits into a pram
A child can carry it do it no harm
Armalite rifle and the holy trinity
It's used against you for irish jokes and the bbc
Armalite rifle please skew the aim
Armalite rifle use it everyday
The rifle does harm it shoots for miles
If a bullet gets you in the heart destroys your insides
Armalite rifle police duty eh?
Armalite rifle use it everyday
It'll do you damage it'll do you harm
Blow your legs off blow your guts out
I disapprove of it so does dave
It'll do you damage it'll do you damage
Damage damage damage damage damage

[struggle4progress]

34. Abraham, Martin and John

[struggle4progress]

35. White House Blues

[struggle4progress]

36. Stagger Lee

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37. Point Blank

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38. Copacabana

[hardluck]

39. Glorified G - Pearl Jam

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[Thew]

40. If I had a Gun - Dead Milkmen

[Tikki]

41. "Guns on the Roof"....The Clash and "Lights of Downtown"...Long Ryders

Tikki

[Norbert]

42. I Shot the Sheriff

[Exotica]

43. The Avengers - The American In Me

"Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has been doing to you"

[Tanuki]

45. I Don't like Mondays

"According to Geldof, he wrote the song after reading a telex report at Georgia State University's campus radio station, WRAS, on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, US on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime and her full explanation for her actions was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day".[3]The song was first performed less than a month later."

[PunkinPi]

47. Jeremy (Pearl Jam)

[icymist]

48. Julie Brown - The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun

[icymist]

49. The Lumineers - Gun Song