This really strikes a chord with me.
I’m writing a novel and there’s a small piece in it that describes the history leading up to the point in time the novel takes place at.
A piece of legislation called the “Universal Civilian Disarmament act” was passed. It was an attempt to halt violence, particularly gun violence. The ramifications in my story though had the police given the power to be the immediate Judge, jury and executioner of ‘anyone’ the found with a weapon in their possession. And I do mean executioner, the offender was immediately executed on the spot.
At first it was guns and knives and then it came down to blunt objects, bats, hammers or what have you. Once the populace was completely disarmed and cowed. They, (the politicians and elites), ordered ALL of the populace into the cities first and then into huge towers called residentials.
If you resisted moving by the official move-by date the power was cut off to your section of the country and the ‘elimination’ battalions were sent in. No prisoners, no survivors left behind.
And all because ‘Someone’ somewhere got their panties in a twist because someone said cruel words and they felt scared. And everyone else had to pay for their fears.