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    Gun Games
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    Gun Games

    By Duke Kell

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    Gun Games is the fourth book in the "Freedom Files" series, a collection of novelettes about ongoing civil liberty issues.

    Guns have been outlawed in the United States for two years, yet gun violence has not stopped. The black market is being hunted down and eliminated by the government. Students from Hawai‘i explore the issue in history class and the local school board decides the teacher has gone too far. The first arrest of a teacher for the content of a lesson may lead to the final blow for academic freedom. Why were guns made illegal? Who profits the most from the new gun laws? Follow the money and the power into the darkness that hides behind good intentions.

    Included at the beginning and the end is the Freedom Files that correlate with this story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTwo Two Productions
    Release dateJul 24, 2016
    ISBN9781370721047
    Gun Games
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    Duke Kell

    Duke is a registered member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation who grew up in the Denver Metro area. He was one of the founding members of Ghost Crew A hip-hop group in Southern California, and Bodhi an alternative rock band. After earning a B.A. in journalism from the University of Northern Colorado and completing his Graduate work in Education at Cal State San Bernardino, Duke became an Author and Educator. By age 27, he was the youngest professor on campus at Chaffey College, wrote and directed his first feature-length movie and signed on to teach at a school for troubled youth. Now in his 40's, he and his family have made Kailua Kona their home where he continues to be active in education and the arts.

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      Gun Games - Duke Kell

      The Gun Games

      By: Duke Kell

      Smashwords Edition

      The Gun Games, By Duke Kell

      Published by Two Ton Productions, at Smashwords.

      Copyright © 2016 by Two Ton Productions.

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      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      Freedom Files

      Dax and Abby, 2091

      I woke up in the morning with the book on my face. I re-read the letter and decided to give it a few days before trying to come up with a good set of talking points for my date with Abby. Friday came faster than I expected and the workload in my other classes was very heavy that week, so I decided to head into the date blind. I had never done anything in my life without planning it out first. A whole life, days, future all planned, until that week when it finally hit me, I was free.

      There was a strange calm I felt as I walked down the street toward the café. The people walking by danced in bubbles of their own worlds, some lost in thought, some smiling, and a couple holding hands. A group of four men on the corner sang an echoing song that pierced my soul and made my body want to wiggle. I entered the café and saw Abby sitting in our same booth, so I hurried over and slid into the bench seat.

      Good afternoon. I said.

      She smiled, saying, I got here a little early and saw the same booth, so I went ahead and sat. I hope you don’t mind.

      We talked about our week, ordered some lunch and dove headfirst into The Surveillance State. We talked, laughed, and ate an appetizer, lunch and a small desert, before the waiter came over and told us that there were two open seats at the bar. Apparently three hours is the longest they let one party stay at a table. We decided to move across the street, to the park where we found a bench under a large canopy of a tree.

      I don’t know, but I think they stopped teaching philosophy a as construct of understanding how we interact with each other, I said.

      She shook her head, saying, I just don’t understand how the people who called themselves Christian could let themselves and their religion be used to destroy the only country that allowed them to flourish. I don’t care what they were taught at school, but if you read the words of their savior Jesus Christ, it is pretty clear that nearly everything the twenty first century Christians voted for was in direct conflict with his views. She shook her head.

      Have you heard the term ‘Dominionism’? I asked.

      No.

      ‘Dominionism’ was a theocratic theory that heterosexual men had been given the duty by god to have dominion (control) over secular society by controlling both political and cultural institutions, I said.

      She shrugged her shoulders, So.

      So, when Christians gave up on Christianity and began believing in a new religion called Dominionism they were no longer Christians. Dominionists began pushing a revised history to suit only their very narrow view of the world. They gave up on reason which was and is the backbone of freedom. They denied the things around them in the natural world in favor of dogma, because it was easier to trust the silver-tongued politicians than their own eyes. This is why Christianity was tied to the corrupt state that arose behind their blind allegiance and why they didn’t realize it till it was too late.

      Hun, I never thought about it that way.

      I’d like to take credit for it, but actually President Verdusco said something similar in an article a couple of years ago. She was under attack for practicing a form of Christianity that had been passed down in her family for generations.

      She nodded, I do remember that. She said her family used a Jeffersonian Bible and that she was Unitarian/Deist like many of the founding fathers, including Jefferson and Franklin.

      Yes, that’s the one, she quoted Jefferson and Franklin in defense of her position. I find it interesting that the president was using the same defences as the founders, but against an overwhelming belief in atheism, while both founders were defending their position against an overwhelming belief in an orthodox view of Christianity.

      Hold on, let’s find those quotes.

      She pressed a button on her wrist watch and began to type in midair. When she stopped a hologram with the Google search engine popped up with hundreds of links to the quotes.

      Here is the quote she used for Jefferson, she said, pointing at a letter Jefferson wrote to William Short, then reading it out loud, "The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this benevolent moralist, and the rescuing it from the imputation of imposture, which has resulted from artificial systems, (the immaculate conception of Jesus, his deification, the creation of the world by him, his

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