Chapter 37In the first twelve months of Adam Sukova’s presidency there had been 1,087 separate gun shootings in which four or more people died – almost three a day, a huge increase from the already shocking level of one a day five years earlier. Ever since the 2018 Florida school m******e and the Michigan m******e in 2023, public opinion on gun laws had hardened year on year, and with more and more mass shootings since then the polls showed the American public was resolutely opposed to uncontrolled gun ownership. On the other hand, the National Rifle Association, one of America’s most powerful lobbying bodies, was well used to being under attack, and was brilliant at defending its position by arguing the rights of the individual in the constitution, and repeating its snappy mantra – guns d
