This was my first attempt at writing an end of america type story, I apologies for the spelling and punctuation and hope those that choose to read it can see past it.  This is a work in progress and i will finish the story, I feel there is so many places this can go, Enjoy


The easy Targets

July 11th 
We bring you breaking news, A school bus crashed this morning on Highway 10 just outside of Little Rock Arkansas, The Bus was on its way to Jefferson elementary and middle school. The driver and 35 children on board died at the scene,7 other drivers were also injured in the accident. Police have yet to determine what caused this horrific fatal accident.

July 13th
The video was first posted on Youtube from a computer located in the town of Al-Raqqah. The 3 minute long video showed what caused the bus to crash and it horrified the world. The cellphone video was shot from behind a man laying down just of the highway a mere 25yards away. The man was laying on the ground with small rifle in his hands. 30 seconds pass with the man just laying there and then in  a few seconds it all changes a school bus rolled into frame from the left the man fires 1 shots, and the windshield of the bus shatters. The bus swerves to the left hitting the center divider. The bus leans into the barrier scraping down the length of the bus sparks flying into the air then suddenly without warning the bus rolls flipping over the barrier into oncoming traffic, the barrier blocks most of the view but you can hear the horrific crashing noise as car after car blows into the flipped over bus. Then there’s an explosion, flames thrown 20 ft in the air the screams clearly heard over the now still traffic, The sniper starts to turn but before his face is show the video goes black. The video is shared over a million times in the first 15 minutes with thousands of copies popping up on other video and social networking sites,

July 15th
The FBI have organised a nation wide manhunt for the unknown sniper, The badly burnt body of the driver is examined and fragments of a 22 caliber bullet are found impeded in his face, The location of the video has been found and the rifle left by the sniper recovered. A rugger 10/22 a rifle that can be bought at any sporting goods store for less then $300, A rifle used foe hunting squirrels was used to kill 36 innocent people. The FBI are asking anyone with any information no matter how small to come forward.

July 16th
The 8am bell at Washington middle school Denver Colorado was just about to ring, 548 stdents were waiting to start there school day, The 3 loud pops heard from across the parking lot dident register to most as what they were, 5 children fell to the floor the shots indiscriminate in there killing another 48 children were injured in the stampede that followed as children parents and teachers fled for the safety of the school building, No one seen the grey delivery van drive away immediately after,

July 17th
The video appeared faster this time, A camera mounted on top of an AR15 styled rifle, The driver stops the van for less then 15 seconds, the rifle is raised into the open van window, quickly aimed into the mass of children, firing 3 rounds and then the rifle is placed on the floor, The video again fades to black this time 2 words are left on the screen  “JOIN ME”.

The FBI local and state police all make similar statements, asking for whiteness and any one who may have photos or video from either scene to come forward, The next day the van is found 5 miles away burnt to a crisp, The rifle still laying inside.

July 19th
School had been in session for more then 3 hours when the gunman entered the dining room of St Thomas elementary in Clovis, New Mexico. Dressed in a business suit and carrying a briefcase he had strolled right past the school reception desk without anyone saying a word, He walked the 30 yards past 4 classrooms before entering the dining room where half the schools 400+ students were eating lunch. He stopped and removed a small camera from his briefcase that he set apon a table a red light blinking to show it was already recording. He then removed 3 magazines each contaminating 10 hollow point bullets, setting them in front of the camera as well, HE turns away from the camera and starts shooting into the sitting children after fringing the first 10 rounds in mere seconds. When the slide locks open he ejects the empty magazine onto the floor, picks up another from the table and continues firing, Some children run, tho most do as they have been taught they lay on the floor to wait for help that will arrive to late, The man empty’s all of the magazines before dropping the gun, picking up the camera and leaving. 40 rounds in less then 2 minutes 27 children dead 52 more injured. Not one person in the school can give a description of the man other then to say he was wearing a suit.

July 20th
The briefing to the president had no new information. The FBI, Homeland security and all the other alphabets law enforcement groups had nothing on the shooter, The latest video had been released 3 hours earlier and had already been viewed 42 million times,
The video played just as the other videos had, Showing the shooting of dozens of innocent children before fading to black with the words Join me appearing on the screen. There was nothing on any news channel except the story of the school shooter. Analysts of the videos showed that a different camera was used each time. The videos were then sent across the globe and then uploaded online from different city’s in Syria and Iraq. The shooter was a non description male of seemingly Arab decent with short hair, Other the the back of his head seen in his own videos there was no other clue as to who he may be.
 The guns recovered at the scene had no serial numbers and were available in any state. The only clue if it could be called that is the fact the shooter used 10 round magazines in the pistol from the last shooting maybe meaning the gun had probably come from one of the 8 states that had a magazine capacity ban or he could of just ordered them online.  8 days after the first shooting they were no closer to fining out who the shooter is.

July 23rd
It had been 4 days since the last attack and although the horrific scenes still played on peoples minds and some schools had hired of duty police officers to protect there campus things were returning to normal. The big game between Robertson and Shielding High schools had just started the game was in full swing the arch rival teams really going at it, The stands were full and both teams were playing to win. Nobody heard the shot from the .308 rifle nobody realized what had happened to the John Archer the quarterback from Shielding, he just fell to the floor, His red uniform obscuring the blood  poring from the wound in his chest. It was only after the second player fell that people realized that something was wrong. People in the stands started to run some towards the fired to grab there children some towards the safety of the school parking lot. 5 more shots were fired 3 more players fell. Players started to run for the safety of the locker rooms crushing into the tunnel that took them there, people ran in all directions some falling being trampled by others. No more shots were fired but by the time help arrived  19 life’s had been lost many caught in the crush to escape trampled by there friends and family desperate to escape the chaos. 112 people were injured many needing medical assistance. And all of this was broadcast live on the states sports channel.

July 24th
The video was again posted online the distance between the shooter and his victims was further this time. The shooter was on a freeway overpass almost 400 yards away,  again the video was shot from behind. The 1st round was fired and as the bullet leaves the gun the video cuts to the video shot for tv showing the bullet impacting the 1st victim, It cuts back to the second shooter as he fires his second shot again cutting to the player it hit, The same thing happens for the next 5 shots a grizzly montage of gun shots and the death they caused. The video once again fades to back, The message “JOIN ME” again appears on the screen this time with the words “THE TIME IS NOW” underneath.

July 24th
The President of The United States is standing in the white house news room, He announces a new executive order that all public schools will have police officers on site, The officers are there to act as security for the children. The federal government will allocate funds to pay for this emergency measure. Across the country local and state governments are in panic mode trying to protect there children, Some are putting forward emergency laws to allow teachers to conceal carry, Others are working on stricter gun laws to try and keep guns out of the hands of criminals and citizens alike. Some schools are seeing there attendance levels drop by 5 percent, Some school distracts have gone as far as banning all adults that are not teachers from the premises and others canceling all sporting events. Nobody knows who will be next and no one wants to be the next victim. 

July 26th
A dark blue Toyota Carrola  pulls into the parking lot of James Campbell Elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. The car waits drop of line behind the other parents their to drop of kids. As the car reaches the front of the line the passenger side window rolls down. The young male inside raises a Mac 10 machine pistol takes aim at a group of children waiting to enter the school cafeteria to eat breakfast and fires. The 30 rounds of .45 ACP spit from the barrel in less then  5 seconds, Many of the round fly high but enough find their mark.8 children are torn to shreds by the onslaught of bullets, the heavy rounds continue on blowing through the wooden cafeteria door where 3 more children are killed and 8 more are inured.

The federally mandated police officer who was standing at the school office heard the shots, He runs towards the front parking lot a mere 10 yards away, The Toyota floors it heading right towards the officer, The office seeing the fleeing car draws his Glock pistol and unloads all 17 rounds into the car as it passes,  The Toyota races away its windows and  body peppered with bullet holes, Its only then that the officer sees 2 children and a mother laying motionless on the ground across the parking lot his rounds having passed through the car hitting the innocent bystanders,

July 27th
The FBI release an official statement that the school shooter is Dead, His car was found 3 miles from the School crashed into a light pole at the side of the road, Inside the car was the dead shooter, The mac 10 and a camera stuck to the dash. America is safe once again.

July 29th
The school bus for Mercury High School in Columbus Ohio was sitting at a red light, Having just picked up the last of its 45 students, The man who approached the bus was waving his arms yelling and pointing towards the back of the bus, The 22 year veteran driver opened the door to see what all the fuss was about, It was the last thing he ever did.

The Man reached into his jacket and pulled out a short Pump action shotgun, The type made famous in by gangster movie with the pistol grip and no stock. Hes shot the driver the 00 buck passing through the driver with ease, The man a GoPro camera strapped to his chest climbs the 3 steps onto the bus racking another shell into the chamber and fires without aiming towards the back of the bus, Some children screamed others struggled to undo the seat belt mandated by federal law. The 9 balls from the shell left the barrel at such speed that they pass through seats and child alike each of the 1/3 of an inch steal balls passing through multiple objects as they created carnage in the confined space of the bus, The man fired again and again each time racking a new shell into the gun, The Children had nowhere to run and nowhere to hide all but 3 were hit by the 6 shells fired towards them. The man stepped from the bus leaving 32 dead children and the driver on board, The whole incident had happened in less then a minute,

July 30th
9am The president was again on the news sharing in the sorrow of America, The same question on his mind why had the FBI said they were safe. The man the FBI had announced dead was a 22 year black man from queens new york, He had spent 3 years in prison for armed robbery. Whilst inside he had found Islam and had converted, He had been out of jail for 6 months and was know to frequent a believed radicalized mosque in the city, The police had found disturbing footage on the camera inside the car. With the man talking about how only Muslims should live free and all others must die. The young male was not the school shooter but a copy cat inspired to kill by the videos posted online,

The President announced emergency conditions for the country with roadblock posted on interstates and Highways With all Guns banned from travel, No one except for law enforcement was allowed to travel with a firearm for any reason, All gun sales were suspended until further notice,

1 hour after the presidents speech the school bus video was on every news channel, Only the first 10 second of the video were shown on TV the screen was blanked and only the audio was heard as the gunman fired the first shot into the driver, The image appeared as the man stepped of the bus, His laughter could be heard. The man stops and turns back to the bus and in a clear American accents says “America is weak, Join me to finish them”

July 30th
3pm The GOP is an uproar at the presidents dissension to ban the sale and movement of guns in the country, A clear violation of the second amendment, not to mention the violations of peoples rights with the unwarranted searches There is call is to remove gun free zones and let people defend there children as they see fit,  The democrat’s are calling for a complete ban on guns and ammo with a mandatory surrender of all privately owned firearms in the country.

Sheriffs through out the country are calling their governors to notify them that they will not search cars and they will not seize guns.

The president Calls for Homeland security to run all the checkpoints and to start collecting all the sales records from every gun stores in the country in his words "to check those who bought guns to links of terrorism"  they will do what ever is necessary to stop any more children from dieing.

August 1st
Traffic on freeways and highways across the country were at a standstill, the usual 60MPH traffic was moving at less then 20. The Homeland security checkpoints were stooping cars at random hundreds of cars an hour at each checkpoint. Most people just complied tho there were a number who caused a scene insisting on there constitutional rights, The first of these people at each checkpoint were humored, but after a couple of hours stricter orders were passed down. People who do not comply are to bepulled from there cars and arrested for violating the patriot act. Those insisting on there rights were to be labeled as potential terrorists and to be held indefinitely untill such time as homeland was convinced that they were not.

The first major incident happened on the just outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The former marine was traveling home after a work trip and was carrying a pistol and rifle in his car, he was unaware of the new laws as were many others traveling the country. When the plain cloths Homeland security officer sees the rifle bag on the back seat of his SUV the office draws his weapon and points it at the driver. The Marine seeing this man dressed in blue jeans and a t-shirt pointing a gun at him lets his training kick in. He leans to his right moving out of the trajectory of the officers gun, he drew his pistol that had been tucked under his thigh and started shooting through the body of the big SUV. The 9mm round pierced right through the light sheet metal striking the homeland security officer in the chest. The Marine opened his car door to make sure his attacker was out of the fight, It was at this point that he noticed another armed person running towards him, This again was another plain cloths officer working for homeland security. The marine acted on instinct, He took a knee and moved to the front of the car, he leaned around the front fender exposing himself just enough to fire 4 rounds each hitting the charging man. The Marine didn’t think anything of the uniformed officers running towards him from the checkpoint which had caused the traffic to stop. He raised his hands above his head gun still in hand, thats when the first shot hit him. 4 rounds fired by the closest officer, other officers opened fire the marine died at the scene having been hit by 23 individual shots. That first day 17 people died at checkpoints across the country 498 were arrested to be held indefinitely under the patriot act, There vehicles pushed to the side of the road, not even there family's were notified of their arrest

August 2nd
 The fire drill at Coronado High school in California had been planned 6 months ago, at 11:11am the school fire bell rang, every one of the 1000+ students filled out onto the school parking lot by 11:25 every student was standing on the filed organized by class and grade, the teachers taking roll call checking to make sure everyone was there. the Loud continues noise was  unidentifiable to almost every one , The few people that did understand what it was dident have time to move, The belt fed M60 machine gun started firing from its position in the back of the box truck across the street. In a slow sweeping ark from left to right in swept across the parking lot, many children were trampled as the crowed began to move after noting death was flying there way, When the gun reached the end of its ark on the far side of the lot it began to sweep back firing until the 400 rounds of ammo on the belt were gone. Nobody noticed the man jumping from the box truck and riding away on a cheap moped,

August 3rd
With the Major traffic across the country and the people staying at home there kids Business were reporting that almost half their employees were either late for work or just not showing up, School attendance was down over 30%. Protests were happening all across the country, some people wanted to government to do more , others wanted the government to do less. Local police departments were calling in all officers to keep the groups of protesters separate and contained. Major city’s were essentially bought to a standstill by the rioting and looting that followed each protest.
FBI reported that the machine gun used the day before had been made in 1957 and had been missing ever since. The number of dead from its use was 200 and was expected to climb.

Interesting and scarily plausible, in these current times and political climate, IMHO. 

....If our new elected leaders don't do a 180 on our path...