{"id":68667,"date":"2018-11-30T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68667"},"modified":"2018-11-30T08:09:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T14:09:25","slug":"for-the-children-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68667","title":{"rendered":"For The Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is out behind his house, turning his city trash barrel right side up, when Avery LIBRELLE turns down the alley, riding a Lime Bike. BERG can&#8217;t escape.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg!\u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s time for comprehensive gun control!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 \u00a0<em>Of course\u00a0<\/em>it is.\u00a0 Even though none of it can have any effect on gun violence &#8211; none at all &#8211; and it violates wholesale the rights of the law-abiding.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 \u00a0Hah!\u00a0 \u00a0When I heard about Newtown, I stopped caring about your so-called &#8220;rights&#8221; (<em>makes scare quotes as h&#8230;er, sh&#8230;er, as LIBRELLE says &#8220;Rights&#8221;<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 You did, huh?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Yep!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: For the children?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Yes!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: I hear and understand you completely, Avery.\u00a0 I did the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Er &#8211; wait.\u00a0 What?<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 When I saw pictures of the Holocaust&#8230;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/736x\/e3\/e2\/07\/e3e207950d876893f455da9975760004.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and what happens to the children when people lose their freedom&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.timesofisrael.com\/blogs\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Holocaust.png\" width=\"547\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;even &#8211; no,\u00a0<em>especially\u00a0<\/em>their children, then\u00a0I stopped caring about the emotions of people who put the word &#8220;rights&#8221; in scare quotes.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 \u00a0(<em>Absentmindedly looks down at the control panel on the bike<\/em>) &#8211; Hey, Merg &#8211; I ran out of stored money on this bike.\u00a0 Give me your credit card.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>And SCENE<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is out behind his house, turning his city trash barrel right side up, when Avery LIBRELLE turns down the alley, riding a Lime Bike. BERG can&#8217;t escape.\u00a0\u00a0 LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg!\u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s time for comprehensive gun control! BERG:\u00a0 \u00a0Of course\u00a0it is.\u00a0 Even though none of it can have any effect on gun violence &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,25,22],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-68667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-history-and-its-making","category-victim-disarmament","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68667","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=68667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68668,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68667\/revisions\/68668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}