It's interesting...I realize that this is just fiction, but it is so real that it ought to scare any gun owner...
....but in Matthew Bracken's "Enemies, Foreign and Domestic" trilogy, these are the following engines of change and the collapse of American society:
- A shadow sub-agency set up by a rogue administrator within BATFE manufactures a mass-murder, and pins the blame on an innocent disabled victim of PTSD
- Using the "tragedy," the President and Congress drum up a campaign, with the willing collusion of the media, to call for a ban of "weapons of mass killing and war."
- This shadow agency then starts conducting a guerrilla war against gunstores, gun advocates and advocacy groups, burning down their homes and businesses and killing them in their beds on the one hand, and then attacking mosques and black separatist offices in midnight drive-by shootings on the other hand, leaving behind manifestos implicating "2nd Amendment militia crazies" in the attacks.
- The government steps up the attacks in the press, equating among other things, that gun owners are racists.
- Gun owners begin to fight back using guerrilla tactics. The story's heroine assassinates the Virginia AG, who is party behind this war on gun owners, using a scoped and suppressed Thompson Contender in .223 from 200 yards out. She escapes.
- Another gun owner assassinates a (Feinstein-like) senator from 500 yards out with an ancient Mosin Nagant topped with a 1940s vintage Russian sniper scope.
- Government then outlaws all riflescopes because they are all "sniper scopes," saying that you don't need a scope to kill a deer, and the 2nd Amendment exists to protect hunting rights.
- An "underground" develops, and one of the retaliations is that a list of all BATF and FBI agents' private addresses is published on the web, and agents start getting picked off; and government slows toward a halt, as leftist politicians and bureaucrats no longer feel safe to travel about.
- Ultimately, all privately owned guns are outlawed.
- Enforcement splits between those LEOs who "follow orders," and those who don't. The national guard gets involved. TSA is tasked with setting up checkpoints were vehicles are randomly searched for contraband guns.
- Then the real fun begins.
There is much, MUCH more, including the formation of a communist front called "The Army of the Poor" which riots with impunity. New Mexico becomes the nucleus of a successful movement to split the American southwest—including the western part of Texas—into the new nation of Aztlan. And on and on and on. It is riveting reading.
But one of the themes that keeps popping up are the accusations from leftist characters that guns are the domain of white rednecks who hate blacks and hispanics, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum.
The first book is copyrighted 2003. The second one is copyrighted 2006. The third one, where resolution is finally achieved (at a heavy cost, and leaving a country looking nothing like what we know today) is copyrighted 2011. The author was seemingly prescient, except for the fact that
as far as we know, Adam Lanza's killing spree was not a manufactured event.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, "Those Who Remain"
#TINVOWOOT
Then again, I was a 0% during the campaign.
