Jen Lawson's 'Cold Dead Hands' would serve well as gun rights advocates' anthem

I rarely presume to try to tell readers what music to listen to, but "Cold Dead Hands," written by Jen Lawson and Bo Dottley, is worth making an exception. The solo acoustic version here combines the song's powerful lyrics with Lawson's driving guitar and strong voice.

It's a song I would enjoy listening to even if the lyrics were not a clenched fist of defiance thrust in the faces of those who would trample the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms. That's important, because the wider the audience the song gains by virtue of its musical merits, the more people who are not yet gun rights advocates might listen to those lyrics and realize that what the gun prohibitionists want to take away from us is far too precious to give up without the fight of our lives--the last fight of our lives, if necessary.

The YouTube video is great, but the iTunes version might be the best 99 cents you've ever spent.

P.S. for the lyrics, go to the YouTube video, and click on the "Show More" right below the video. While you're there, be sure to click the thumbs-up "Like" button, too.