{"id":70963,"date":"2019-04-02T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70963"},"modified":"2019-04-02T07:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:15:22","slug":"70963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70963","title":{"rendered":"Graphing Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:  Mitch BERG is hacking down shrubbery for the spring.  Avery LIBRELLE, walking past, hears the chainsaw and walks around the front of BERG&#8217;s house. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Er, hey, Avery.  Kinda busy here&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  The US has more guns than any country in the world, and the highest death rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  As you can see here&#8230; (<em>produces a chart from his back pocket<\/em>) &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"661\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-from-iOS-3-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70964\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-from-iOS-3.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-from-iOS-3-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-from-iOS-3-768x496.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Image-from-iOS-3-465x300.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;while per-capita civilian gun ownership is high &#8211; and has gotten higher since the data in that chart &#8211; our gun homicide rate is actually down the list a ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Hah!  To laugh!   Most of those countries with higher murder rates aren&#8217;t industrial?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  So? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Do I need to speak slowly?  They a r e n &#8216; t    i n d u s t r i a l.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  No, I got that.  So what?  Is the life of a brown or black person, or a subsistence farmer, worth less than the life of a white middle class liberal American? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Why, no!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:   Then why do we not count their deaths the same?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Do you have any arugula? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>And SCENE<\/em>)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitch BERG is hacking down shrubbery for the spring. Avery LIBRELLE, walking past, hears the chainsaw and walks around the front of BERG&#8217;s house. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Er, hey, Avery. Kinda busy here&#8230; LIBRELLE: The US has more guns than any country in the world, and the highest death rate. BERG: As you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70963","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=70963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70966,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70963\/revisions\/70966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}