Fact Checking of Shadows of the Seen

If you are so intrigued, please pick up a copy or contact me for a signed version of the hard cover or paperback. 

 Shadows of the Seen is not anti-gun, anti-ownership  anti-Second Amendment and anti-America

The book is neither pro or anti-gun. 

In general, guns are a vehicle in shooting people, that's why they were invented, no matter what you think.  The book doesn't mention forming of any militias, so that covers that, but it does cover the rally behind that Amendment. The book does mention how easy it is to get hands on powerful weapons, legally or illegally and how politicians ramp up their influence and are paid by gun lobbyists--(who turn around feed us information about guns being "taken away," and how more arming of teachers, or good guys can prevent all of this. It can't--check the facts.)

Shadows of the Seen puts politicians, especially conservatives in a bad light. 

The book holds party-line platforms, for the most part that Republicans are pro-gun, anti-choice, and Democrats and anti-gun, pro-choice. 

Shadows of the Seen  takes a stand about which comes first the chicken (people) or the egg (the guns)

Neither. The book covers both, and the manipulation of those issues. 

Moving to non-fiction: Let's take on Mental Health in the USA. People, because of some serious issues should never have access to guns, but here's the rub in the USA. Mental Health services for those in serious need. 

Why?

Mostly because insurance companies don't want to pay for it. Insurance, if you have it, are looking to treat and discharge care or therapy services. Mental Health is all based on the prescription model and people either a) quit or don't take their medications correctly, b) are on the wrong medications which they take blindly because their psychiatrist told them to, and don't try more therapeutic ones because they don't know any better. The psychiatrist are the "golden Gods." On the other hand will only change things up if people self-report, and if they are not being treated in the best way, their self-reporting is unreliable. 

As for the guns, the manipulation is in that it's believed to be anti-American to not have them. Period.  This also covers the the "American hating" folks that object semi-automatic weapons, which no one really needs.  The problem is about all of the above, people, figure heads, manipulation, need for guns. One of the biggest manipulations in history was pre-political, the Bernard Goetz case, who shot his perceived assailants in the back.  

This case is covered  in the Netflix series, Trail by Media, Episode 2: The NRA helped fund his defense because it opened a window for their agenda. In fact, the NRA was sued afterward for misleading and fraudulent fund-raising drive to pardon the convicted Goetz,

     The National Rifle Association were among the groups that attempted to brand him as a folk hero. Goetz told investigators that he'd bought a gun in Florida and illegally transported it to New York City after he was violently mugged by three teens four years before the subway shooting, and had applied for a New York gun permit as a result but was rejected. This led the NRA to openly support Goetz, raising money for him and asking the governor to pardon him, according to a 1987 Los Angeles Times report. They used Goetz as a poster boy as they advocated for looser gun laws in New York City.   

     Goetz's vigilante hero persona may have helped him at the trial for the shooting. A mostly white jury acquitted Goetz of attempted murder and first-degree assault charges. However, public perception began to turn after an interrogation video was released, which revealed Goetz speaking callously about the shooting and his desire to kill the teenagers.

“I wanted to kill those guys,” he told investigators. “I wanted to maim those guys.”

He claimed to have shot one of the teens more than once because he thought he didn’t seem hurt enough the first time. He was convicted only of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree for carrying an unlicensed weapon in a public place and served just eight months.

 

Accused "subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz, who shot four young black men whom he believed were intent on robbing him on the subway, is surrounded by newsmen in New York, 1987. Photo

 Shadows of the Seen  is attempting to change the minds of people that aren't on the same side of this issue as the author.

No. Shadows of the Seen is a book of fiction, a novel that looks at the gun issue from many sides. The story is driven through the narrative of the three main characters, 1) a politician who is internally liberal but runs on conservative values. 2) A mass shooter. 3) A reluctant hero who breaks up a mass shooter for unconventional reasons. 

The hook?

The mass shooter and reluctant hero are not revealed until the end.