"It's up to those who're pointing the guns--- and the songs---
to see to it that they're responsible about taking aim".
Or maybe don't point the guns in the first place, but rather, seek solutions to problems by other means.
At the height of the "troubles" an archivist friend had the job of collecting locally made albums of songs of the events in the North of Ireland; he found plenty of examples from both sides, including one called 'The Pope's a Darkie'.
Jim Carroll