An Awful Dream

I had a pretty bad dream last night. I dreamt that I was pulled over by the police for what I thought was running a red light. However I was utterly shocked when the officer said what it was for. "For owning an unlicensed gun,” the policeman said. It was a $700 dollar ticket! This officer was targeting specific people who the FBI said had purchased a gun, but had not registered it. Amid my confusion over what was going on, I heard him talking about all the tickets he had to hand out that day.

I know some friends on the force, and was able to get one of them to search my house to "prove" that I no longer had a gun. Despite my efforts to hide them, he quickly found my guns. "You are going to have to find a better place to find these guns," he said, “They are not going to stop coming over and searching your house; and you need to hide all your ammo, because it it’s illegal to own ammo with out a permit for the guns." I was flabbergasted. I had to sit down. "I thought you didn't have to register your firearm in Oklahoma, when did this even happen," I asked? "The law passed last week,” he said.

The blatant unconstitutionality of what was happening was boggling my mind. It was obvious that government was setting up for the next step which was finding out who had guns so they could take them. It was obvious that they were harassing the ones they knew would be a problem, and it was obvious that they were moving as quickly as possible because they knew what, they were doing was unconstitutional. Then I woke up. Usually when I have a bad dream I brush it off because it is just a dream. What continues to haunt me about this one is that it seems so plausible.

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