THE ASSAULTED--A Novel
THE ASSAULTED is a work of historical fiction whose central storyline occurs from April to November, 2018; it concerns mass shootings in the United States since Columbine. It is a story of the victims, and one who decides to take matters into his own hands on behalf of them all.
THE ASSAULTED--A Novel
Chapter 6-Inland Regional Center, San Bernadino, CA
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Remmy Ramirez was a very shy man, until he got behind the lens of a camera; then he was friendly, confident, brilliant. That all changed one morning at a training for City of San Bernardino employees, when a "Mutt and Jeff" husband/wife team came in with AR-15 automatic weapons.....
"Somehow this has become routine! The reporting is routine, my response, here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it, we've become numb to this. We talked about this after Columbine and Blacksburg, after Tucson, after Newtown, after Aurora, after Charlestown. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun." President Obama, 10/01/2015, after Umpqua Community College shooting