[Travis McGee]

I used to think of this struggle like it was a football game: which yardline is the 2nd amendment ball on? Who will score first?

Now I see it more like tectonic plate theory. The two halves of the nation continue to move in opposite directions right next to each other. 32 states have passed CCW laws, yet in CA, MD, NY, NY etc the restrictions grow vastly tighter.

I just wonder what will trigger the rupture between the two plates. The reason I chose a stadium massacre in the book is that it allows me to "fast forward" the struggle, to jump it ahead a decade in one week. But even with no outrageous trigger event, the rupture will still come, it will just take longer to arrive.

[Jeff Head]

Yes, sort of like the heating up of those beams in the towers that we spoke of last year after the horrific 911 events. Socially, culturally, ideologically ... our nation is "heating" up slowly like that. The pillars holding it together (and the 2nd amendment is one of them) are slowly being weakened. There are enemies who know this and are hastening it IMHO.

I believe that only a watershed event (and 911 had the opportunity) that fosters an almost miraculous "rivial" like spirit that sweeps the country ... awakening morality, faith and common sense ... can keep it from happening.