{"id":55757,"date":"2015-10-20T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55757"},"modified":"2015-10-21T08:36:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:36:46","slug":"my-letter-to-the-strib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55757","title":{"rendered":"My Letter To The Strib<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading Heather Martens’ challenge in the\u00a0Strib\u00a0<\/em>yesterday, I wrote this letter to the Editor.<\/p>\n

\"DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And since there’s not a chance in hell the\u00a0Strib\u00a0<\/em>will ever print it, I’ll run it here, too:<\/p>\n

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In her October 19 reply to DJ Tice’s October 11 editorial, Heather Martens says that the Star\/Tribune should “do their homework, force the gun lobby and its friends to defend their indefensible opposition to important new policies”<\/span><\/p>\n

On behalf of my many friends and colleagues in the Second Amendment human rights movement, I accept the challenge! I urge the Star\/Tribune to set up a debate between Ms. Martens and her colleagues and members of the “gun lobby”, on neutral ground, on camera and on the record, with mutually-agreed-upon rules.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Ms. Martens notes, it would be an essential act of journalism, and it’d part of that “conversation about guns” that everyone is always asking for.<\/span><\/p>\n

If not us (and Ms. Martens), who? If not now, when?<\/span><\/p>\n

I welcome this paper’s initiative in helping get this vital debate organized.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please contact me; I’ll be happy to help set things up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mitch Berg<\/span>
\n Saint Paul<\/span><\/p>\n

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What the heck – it was worth a try, for laughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading Heather Martens’ challenge in the\u00a0Strib\u00a0yesterday, I wrote this letter to the Editor. And since there’s not a chance in hell the\u00a0Strib\u00a0will ever print it, I’ll run it here, too: In her October 19 reply to DJ Tice’s October 11 editorial, Heather Martens says that the Star\/Tribune should “do their homework, force the gun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,189,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","category-narrative-for-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55780,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55757\/revisions\/55780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}