America Disarmed
Two books. One warning.
How a free country could be disarmed by legal, step-by-step means, with no conspiracy required. One book tells you how. The other shows you what it looks like.
Every law, database and technology in these books is real. What doesn't exist yet is the assembly, and that is the easiest part.
The Warning
A bill already written, a staffed committee, a tested message, and people paid to keep it current for years, waiting for the country's worst week. The Warning walks through how the pieces already in place could be assembled, from the history that's been done before to the data systems that make it cheap now, and tells you what to watch for so you see it coming.
Coming 2027- 01A Nation at a Crossroads
- 02The Catalyst
- 03The Precedents
- 04The Subtraction
- 05The Apparatus
- 06The Legislative Ladder
- 07The Data Infrastructure
- 08The Collapse of the Cost of Knowing
- 09The Engineer
- 10The Personnel Pipeline
- 11The Public-Affairs Machinery
- 12The Foreign Component
- 13The Cultural Conditioning
- 14The Sequenced Campaign
- 15The Manual
The Witness
Three mass shootings in six weeks. A disarmament bill passes. In Dublin, Ohio, a defense contractor and former Army intelligence officer is hired to build the system that scores every gun owner in America from one to ten. Then he finds out he's a six. The same three years as The Warning, through one family's front door.
To follow- IThe Pattern
- IIThe Pressure
- IIIThe Break
- IVThe Turn
- VThe Stand
Preface
Here's who I am. A father. A veteran. A military intelligence officer. A patriot, above all that. My name is Ted Oiler, and I've loved this country as long as I've drawn breath — shaped by what it stands for, raised on its freedoms, drawn forward by the words written into the Constitution. That love isn't an intellectual exercise. It's a way of living, and it has steered every consequential decision I've ever made.
It started for me at The Ohio State University in the early 1980s. I was an ROTC cadet and a political science student — curious, opinionated, a little green. One afternoon in a lecture hall in Derby Hall, I got into an argument about the foundation of our freedoms. The Second Amendment, specifically. It struck me then, the way it strikes me now, how fragile our liberties really are. The Second Amendment gets debated, misread, vilified. I've always seen it for what it is: the bedrock that holds the rest of the Bill of Rights upright. Without it, the other nine amendments are paper. Paper anybody in power can ignore the day he decides to ignore it.
In that classroom, surrounded by classmates who saw the world differently, I wrote a paper that changed my life. It wasn't an assignment — it was a warning. Anyone who ever wanted to seize power in this country, I argued, would have to start in the same place: by disarming the people. The Second Amendment was never about hunting. It was about the balance between the governed and the governing. Take away a citizen's right to bear arms and you've taken away his capacity to resist anything.
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Before you ask
The four questions every reader asks first.
Is this a pro-gun book?
It's a warning, and it worries both sides. The first people who read it weren't cheering. They were worried the other side would use it as a road map.
Is any of it real?
The history, the laws and the technology are real. The people and the plot in The Witness are invented. The books keep those two things apart on purpose.
Which one first?
Either. Each stands alone. The Warning tells you how it could happen. The Witness shows you what it looks like when it does.
When can I get it?
The Warning comes out in 2027, with The Witness to follow. Subscribers hear first.