YESTERDAY’S DELETED POST

IN case you’re wondering, yes, I voluntarily deleted yesterday’s post entitled “IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR POCKET…” in deference to the police lives lost in what might be called in history books The Capital Coup [Attempt]. Today, many are wondering why the Capital guards weren’t about to stop it. In my post I wondered how the attempted coup might have gone if everyone knew the Capital guards were not carrying guns, suggesting that events might go different if guards and civil police, like in some other countries, didn’t carry guns. I brought up this issue, admittedly subtly, in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, in reference to the Enforcers, a future cadre of mixed civil guardians and police. In the book, while everyone makes it a case to avoid Enforcers, the one actual interaction between an Enforcer and a protagonist is when an Enforcer helps reclothe two bromancers after their failed public Sweet Sixteen Sexcapade, a rite-of-passage privilege afforded all residents of NewAmerica. Readers may or may not have noticed that Enforcers, while ominously clothed in black, do not wear military gear nor carry a weapon. Again, the only interaction revealed in the book is one what might be called a “Good Samaritan,” leaving all responsibility for a resident’s actions clearly on the resident.

While some might say this is a utopian idea, I would cite that most British police are not armed. They rely instead on specially trained Authorised Firearms Officers (AFO) to attend incidents where firearms are present or deemed necessary. Maybe it’s time to revisit this idea and the disarming of present America in anticipation of a NewAmerica.

The Edge of Madness

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859