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    #NeverAgain
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    #NeverAgain

    By Stephen Davis

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    TV news-anchor Sarah Hathaway's teenage daughter is killed in a mass school shooting. Like any parent, she is determined to find out why a 16-year-old boy would take an assault rifle and murder his friends and classmates. She knows more gun control cannot be the only answer.
    In a surprising move, the District Attorney charges the shooter’s parents with criminal negligence – for allowing their son unfettered access to the M16 – and as accomplices to the murders.
    Sarah finds the answers she is looking for during the parents' trial: irrefutable proof that suffering corporal punishment as a child is the common denominator in the upbringing of violent criminals. Fifty-six countries around the world, therefore, have outlawed corporal punishment by parents in the home, but sadly the United States is not one of them. Sarah is astonished to learn that nineteen states still allow corporal punishment in schools!
    Sarah creates Mothers Against Corporal Punishment to lead the fight to outlaw corporal punishment in schools and in the homes. The movement is just experiencing some success and gathering real momentum when tragedy strikes.
    This novella is a “must-read” for anyone who wants to find a solution to our unrelenting, catastrophic school shootings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Davis
    Release dateMar 22, 2019
    ISBN9780463924419
    #NeverAgain
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    Stephen Davis

    Stephen Davis is America’s pre-eminent rock journalist and biographer, having written numerous bestsellers on rock bands including Watch You Bleed and the smash hit Hammer of the Gods. He lives in Boston.

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      Book preview

      #NeverAgain - Stephen Davis

      #NeverAgain

      A Real Solution

      A novella by

      Stephen Davis

      © Copyright 2019 by Stephen Davis

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental – with one very important exception.

      That exception is Dr. Christian Pfeiffer, who is a real person and former Director of the Kriminologische Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen in Germany that you will meet in Part Two – The Trial. Every word that Dr. Pfeiffer says in testimony in that fictitious trial is true and factual and based on very real surveys and studies.

      PART ONE - LACY

      Chapter One

      There is a freshly-cut hole in the chain link fence separating the Buckhead High School cafeteria from the surrounding woods.

      It is a crisp fall day in September when sixteen-year-old Samuel Braxton climbs through the hole and makes his way toward the building. He passes some students eating at the tables outside, but they are all focused on their phones. No one seems to pay any attention to this young man dressed in an over-sized trench coat as he arrives at a side door to the cafeteria.

      He stops momentarily to put on a gas mask which partially obstructs his view, leaving only the two eye pieces to see through. Then he calmly walks through the door into the cafeteria, which looks more like a food court found at a mall, packed with students eating lunch.

      Braxton pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it into the center of the cafeteria. As the canister explodes, students start screaming and panicking, trying to get away. Tear gas fills the room and makes visibility difficult.

      From under his trench coat, Braxton pulls an M16 assault rifle set on Burst and begins firing three bullets at a time with one trigger pull – BANG! BANG! BANG! – into the scattering crowd. Students start dropping to the floor.

      Braxton continues the assault, walking further into the cafeteria, still firing his weapon. After 10 bursts, the firing stops. He reaches under his trench coat and gets another magazine, loads it, and begins firing again. BANG! BANG! BANG! More students hit the floor.

      That magazine finally runs out as well and Braxton reaches under his trench coat again for a third, but is suddenly hit with a bullet himself – BANG! – and staggers. He can just barely see a security guard in his eye pieces aiming his pistol at him and firing a second round – BANG! – which sends Braxton to the floor.

      Blood starts to fill up Braxton's eye pieces, and then everything goes dark and silent. Even the students' screams fade out.

      * * *

      The logo of the Global News Network fills the studio monitor while on off-screen voice says, Welcome to the GNN Midday News. Here are your anchors, Robert Coyne and Sarah Hathaway.

      The logo fades, revealing Robert Coyne, mid-30's, a stereotypical news broadcaster sitting behind the news desk alongside perky Sarah Hathaway, in her late 30s.

      Good afternoon, Robert says. In this half-hour, we'll bring you interviews with top Pentagon officials about the military buildup in South Korea and what that means to the possibility of an all-out war with North Korea ...

      Sarah takes over seamlessly, ... along with new evidence of a secret chamber inside one of the Great Pyramids at Giza in Egypt, located by some fascinating new x-ray-like technology ... and then hands off to Robert again.

      But first we want to check in with our Washington, D.C. correspondent, Joe Schell, who has some breaking news about the budget resolution passed this morning by the House of Representatives. Joe?

      Joe Schell is in his late 20s and looks like every other TV news correspondent, standing in front of the Capitol Building. "Thank you, Robert. By now everyone knows that the House passed a budget resolution this morning, but what many don't know is that it will increase this nation's deficit by 1.5 trillion dollars or more ..."

      Joe ... Robert tries to interrupt Joe. Joe’s hand goes to his ear, thinking he heard something in his earpiece, but continues on. The House Freedom Caucus, clearly the farthest-right group within the Republican minority, was surprisingly instrumental in the passage of the resolution ...

      Robert tries again, louder this time. Joe ...

      Joe finally realizes that Robert is interrupting his report. Although he doesn’t look too happy about it, he stops. Yes, Robert?

      Sorry to interrupt, Joe, but we have a breaking story happening right now, here in Atlanta.

      The GNN newsroom is abuzz. Robert and Sarah are at their desks and both on screen. Robert has his right hand to his right ear, obviously trying to hear transmissions from his producer in the control room.

      "We're getting reports

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