{"id":57136,"date":"2016-01-13T10:43:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T16:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57136"},"modified":"2016-01-13T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T16:43:23","slug":"sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57136","title":{"rendered":"Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SCENE: \u00a0Avery LIBRELLE is sitting in a dilapidated Subaru\u00a0outside Mitch Berg&#8217;s house. \u00a0LIBRELLE is peering through binoculars, and starts visibly when a glimpse of BERG is visible through the door window.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Shortly, BERG emerges, walking his golden retriever.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0(<em>Leaps from\u00a0car<\/em>). \u00a0Merg!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0(<em>Turns sharply, then relaxes as alarm turns to a groaning acceptance<\/em>) Oh, hi, Avery. \u00a0(<em>BERG notes the windows of LIBRELLE&#8217;s car<\/em>). \u00a0Um, been waiting long?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0There&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/wgntv.com\/2016\/01\/12\/110-shot-17-killed-in-first-10-days-of-2016-in-chicago\/\">seventeen killed in Chicago in the past ten days<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Right. \u00a0And 117 total shot. \u00a0So&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0By\u00a0<em>guns!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Right. \u00a0It&#8217;s been in all the papers for years. \u00a0Parts of Chicago are incredibly violent,l even with all of the celebrated gun control they have.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Hah! \u00a0But those guns come from rural red states!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Come again?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0You heard the President in his Town Hall meeting! \u00a0All the guns used in urban shootings come from guys in vans selling them from their trunk in parking lots in rural red states!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Well, for starters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/nation-world\/stolen-guns-increasingly-used-in-violent-crimes\/\">no, they&#8217;re mostly stolen. \u00a0Often sold to others after being stolen. <\/a>\u00a0 Some come from straw buyers. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/publications\/commentary\/facts-about-gun-shows\">Almost none come from people selling otherwise legal guns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0But if guns weren&#8217;t so available in the neighboring areas, urban crime wouldn&#8217;t be so high.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0If access to guns were the problem, wouldn&#8217;t the crime rate in rural Indiana be higher than in the middle of Chicago?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0(<em>Mouth flaps open and shut a few times, like a boated bass<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>(<em>BERG continues on his walk<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>(<em>And SCENE<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: \u00a0Avery LIBRELLE is sitting in a dilapidated Subaru\u00a0outside Mitch Berg&#8217;s house. \u00a0LIBRELLE is peering through binoculars, and starts visibly when a glimpse of BERG is visible through the door window.\u00a0 Shortly, BERG emerges, walking his golden retriever.\u00a0 LIBRELLE: \u00a0(Leaps from\u00a0car). \u00a0Merg! BERG: \u00a0(Turns sharply, then relaxes as alarm turns to a groaning acceptance) Oh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-57136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57136","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=57136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57137,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57136\/revisions\/57137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}