{"id":61464,"date":"2016-12-23T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61464"},"modified":"2016-12-23T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T17:26:39","slug":"they-are-so-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61464","title":{"rendered":"They Are So Close…"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is leaving Alary’s after a Bears game, when he runs into MyLyssa SILBERMAN, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau. \u00a0Dressed in a hemp power skirt, her brunette-but-slightly-prematurely-gray hair cut into the style known as “ELCA Hair”, she is on her way from her Lowertown condo to the MPR building. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

SILBERMAN: \u00a0(In her “NPR” voice – a nasal brogue that bespeaks an Ivy League education, and sounds like it may have ironic clarinet music in the background<\/em>) Mr. \u00a0Berg.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 Oh, hello, MyLyssa.<\/p>\n

SILBERMAN: \u00a0So you’re still a Second Amendment activist?<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0I am.<\/p>\n

SILBERMAN: \u00a0And you oppose closing the “Gun Show Loophole” with mandatory registration?<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Yep.<\/p>\n

SILBERMAN: \u00a0Why? \u00a0It’s clearly commonsense.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0I’m going to refute you with an NPR story. \u00a0 Yesterday, NPR reported that the Obama Administration has done away with a 9\/11-era program that allowed the creation of a registry of people from several countries linked to terrorist activities. \u00a0 (BERG draws iPhone from pocket, shuffles through to find a recording). \u00a0I believe this\u00a0the report<\/a>, from NPR’s Tom Gjelten:<\/p>\n

GJELTEN: Among those who would speak out – the American Civil Liberties Union. Hina Shamsi is the national security director there.<\/p>\n

HINA SHAMSI: We would absolutely oppose this program. And as we have said, if this form of discriminatory registry is put in place, we stand ready to sue and to challenge it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(BERG stops the recording<\/em>)<\/p>\n

SILBERMAN: \u00a0Right. \u00a0So?<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Listen to this next bit. \u00a0I’ll crank up the volume for a few parts”<\/p>\n

GJELTEN: A new registry could bring out law-abiding Muslims. But human rights lawyer Banafsheh Akhlaghi says it would probably not reveal the would-be terrorists the government should be worried about<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

AKHLAGHI: They aren’t going to voluntarily come into a federal building<\/strong>, give you their fingerprints, give you their name and their identity and allow you to take photographs of them. The good guys do that<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(BERG stops the recording again<\/em>)<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 So terrorists aren’t going to come in and register themselves…<\/p>\n

SILBERMAN: \u00a0 Right. \u00a0That’s absurd.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 Exactly. \u00a0But criminals – people who commit violence with guns? \u00a0They will come in and, in effect, register with a background check when they buy guns?<\/p>\n

SILBERMAN: \u00a0You are clearly “fake news”.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Clearly.<\/p>\n

(And SCENE<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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