{"id":56679,"date":"2015-12-17T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56679"},"modified":"2015-12-14T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T14:31:07","slug":"just-one-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56679","title":{"rendered":"Just One Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mitch BERG is walking through a pet food store. \u00a0He rounds a corner and runs into Avery LIBRELLE, who is plastering &#8220;Simulated Meat Is Murder!&#8221; stickers on bags of dog food. \u00a0 Although BERG tries to evade, LIBRELLE sees him. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Merg!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Aaaagh. \u00a0Er&#8230;hi, Avery.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0It&#8217;s time to institute universal background checks, ban clips that shoot thirty assault bullets\u00a0a second, and get rid of assault AR47s.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Two of those things don&#8217;t exist, and one of them will have no effect on crime but burden the law-abiding citizen exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0But if we save\u00a0<em>just one life<\/em>, it&#8217;ll be worth it.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0So saving &#8220;just one life&#8221;, no matter how improbably, should be the basis for policy?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Yep. \u00a0Human life is sacred.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0So then we should shut down the Green and Blue lines &#8211; about ten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/blue-line-train-hits-bicyclist-at-46th-street-station\/361549321\/\">dead<\/a>? \u00a0Or perhaps get rid of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2014\/11\/12\/four-times-obamacare-lie\/\">Obamacare<\/a>? \u00a0Or for that matter, <a href=\"http:\/\/liveactionnews.org\/yes-planned-parenthood-kills-infants-born-alive-abortions\/\">shutting down Planned Parenthood<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Nooooo! \u00a0Some things are more important than human life!<\/p>\n<p>(<em>LIBRELLE puts bags of dog food around ears, runs from the store)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(<em>And SCENE<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch BERG is walking through a pet food store. \u00a0He rounds a corner and runs into Avery LIBRELLE, who is plastering &#8220;Simulated Meat Is Murder!&#8221; stickers on bags of dog food. \u00a0 Although BERG tries to evade, LIBRELLE sees him. \u00a0 LIBRELLE: \u00a0Merg! BERG: \u00a0Aaaagh. \u00a0Er&#8230;hi, Avery. LIBRELLE: \u00a0It&#8217;s time to institute universal background checks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-56679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-victim-disarmament","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56679","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=56679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56680,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56679\/revisions\/56680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}