Change the conversation about guns
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I want to give you a novel. My name is Ray Rhamey, author of "Gundown," a novel that aims at sparking new thinking on how to deal with guns in our country. There are links below for downloading free ebooks and free ebook readers.
Here's why: Six Americans will die from a handgun bullet during the time it takes an average person to read "Gundown".
Help me send print books to leaders
While you can have a free ebook immediately, this campaign is to fund printing and mailing paperback copies to influential politicians, gunmakers, and the media.
In today’s America, dealing with gun violence is mired in a cultural logjam—as things are, nothing will change unless there is new thinking by politicians and we the people.
We need change.
What "Gundown" is . . . and is not.
One reader said this: "It's both an action-packed thriller and a rational dissection of our legal system. This is a fast-paced yet thought-provoking book, muscular in style and ingenious in worldview."
Another reader said, "These ideas seem so reasonable that they make you wonder why they couldn't be tried."
And this:
It is not a sermon preaching to a gun-control choir, there's meat for both opponents and proponents of gun control. As characters experience the world as it could be, so do you. And that means you can try on for size ways to deal with gun violence, self-defense, and the nation’s troubled criminal justice system.
In the story you'll experience:
• State-subsidized defensive weapons for all of us
• A unique way to get lethal firearms off the street
• An understanding of the Fifth Amendment that requires an accused to testify
• An “advocacy” system of justice to replace the current adversarial system
• Criminal justice that imprisons only violent criminals
The story takes place in a possible near future
In the world of "Gundown," guns are still everyday killers. Most Americans have no defense—except in Oregon, where reforms have self-defense on the rise and guns that kill on the decline.
To Oath Keeper Hank Soldado, Army veteran, ex-cop, and a good guy with a gun, his duty is clear—find a way to stop the gun-reform leader from taking away 2nd Amendment rights.
But, impossibly, the man’s freedom-destroying vision begins to feel like a way to turn America’s murderous gun impasse into self-defense, security, and safety.
Then treachery strikes, the vision is in its death throes, and Hank—Oath Keeper and good-guy-with-a-gun Hank—is the only one who can save it.
What the money is for:
I will print and mail approximately 900 books to state governors, attorneys general, and legislators; to US senators, congressmen, and the Administration; to gun manufacturers; and to the media.
If I don't raise the whole amount, I'll spend every penny to send out what I can.
Will this help? It takes only one inspired person in a position to take action to change the way things are, and "Gundown" could be the stiumulus that makes it happen.
Even a small contribution will help.
Download your free ebook (at-cost papeback follows)
Please follow these links to download your free ebook. Below are also links to free ebook readers for your computer or device.
• Kindle
• epub (Nook, Kobo, etc.)
• PDF
Free ebook reading software you can use on a computer or tablet.
• Kindle app for phones, tablets: http://amzn.to/1OEBs8l
• Kindle for Mac or PC: http://amzn.to/1N2ScDB
• Epub reader for computers: http://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/download.html
All I ask is that you read it, think about it, and share it. If it resonates with you, review it on Amazon, GoodReads, your blog, wherever.
At-cost paperback book available now: If you'd like to have a paperback copy instead, they are available at cost (currently $9.40) at Amazon , Barnes & Noble , and other online booksellers. The price covers printing and the bookseller's discount, and I make exactly $0 on sales.
May you have a long and good life.
*Based on 2014 FBI data and an average reading rate of 300 words per minute, during the 5 hours it takes to read "Gundown" an average of 6.5 people will be killed by a handgun.
Ray
Here's why: Six Americans will die from a handgun bullet during the time it takes an average person to read "Gundown".
Help me send print books to leaders
While you can have a free ebook immediately, this campaign is to fund printing and mailing paperback copies to influential politicians, gunmakers, and the media.
In today’s America, dealing with gun violence is mired in a cultural logjam—as things are, nothing will change unless there is new thinking by politicians and we the people.
We need change.
What "Gundown" is . . . and is not.
One reader said this: "It's both an action-packed thriller and a rational dissection of our legal system. This is a fast-paced yet thought-provoking book, muscular in style and ingenious in worldview."
Another reader said, "These ideas seem so reasonable that they make you wonder why they couldn't be tried."
And this:
It is not a sermon preaching to a gun-control choir, there's meat for both opponents and proponents of gun control. As characters experience the world as it could be, so do you. And that means you can try on for size ways to deal with gun violence, self-defense, and the nation’s troubled criminal justice system.
In the story you'll experience:
• State-subsidized defensive weapons for all of us
• A unique way to get lethal firearms off the street
• An understanding of the Fifth Amendment that requires an accused to testify
• An “advocacy” system of justice to replace the current adversarial system
• Criminal justice that imprisons only violent criminals
The story takes place in a possible near future
In the world of "Gundown," guns are still everyday killers. Most Americans have no defense—except in Oregon, where reforms have self-defense on the rise and guns that kill on the decline.
To Oath Keeper Hank Soldado, Army veteran, ex-cop, and a good guy with a gun, his duty is clear—find a way to stop the gun-reform leader from taking away 2nd Amendment rights.
But, impossibly, the man’s freedom-destroying vision begins to feel like a way to turn America’s murderous gun impasse into self-defense, security, and safety.
Then treachery strikes, the vision is in its death throes, and Hank—Oath Keeper and good-guy-with-a-gun Hank—is the only one who can save it.
What the money is for:
I will print and mail approximately 900 books to state governors, attorneys general, and legislators; to US senators, congressmen, and the Administration; to gun manufacturers; and to the media.
If I don't raise the whole amount, I'll spend every penny to send out what I can.
Will this help? It takes only one inspired person in a position to take action to change the way things are, and "Gundown" could be the stiumulus that makes it happen.
Even a small contribution will help.
Download your free ebook (at-cost papeback follows)
Please follow these links to download your free ebook. Below are also links to free ebook readers for your computer or device.
• Kindle
• epub (Nook, Kobo, etc.)
Free ebook reading software you can use on a computer or tablet.
• Kindle app for phones, tablets: http://amzn.to/1OEBs8l
• Kindle for Mac or PC: http://amzn.to/1N2ScDB
• Epub reader for computers: http://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/download.html
All I ask is that you read it, think about it, and share it. If it resonates with you, review it on Amazon, GoodReads, your blog, wherever.
At-cost paperback book available now: If you'd like to have a paperback copy instead, they are available at cost (currently $9.40) at Amazon , Barnes & Noble , and other online booksellers. The price covers printing and the bookseller's discount, and I make exactly $0 on sales.
May you have a long and good life.
*Based on 2014 FBI data and an average reading rate of 300 words per minute, during the 5 hours it takes to read "Gundown" an average of 6.5 people will be killed by a handgun.
Ray
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Ray Rhamey
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Ashland, OR
