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SCENE: Mitch BERG is taking in a glorious fall day walking around Lake Como when, unbeknownst to him, a Tantric Protest class in the pavilion building lets out. Before BERG can react, he’s confronted with Cat SCAT (the designated \u201cfact checker\u201d at the (possibly fictional) progressive blog \u201c\u201dMinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com\u201c), Edmund DUCHEY (roprietor of that blog, and a person who was badly scarred by a childhood in which he was routinely bullied \u2013 by much younger children), Gutterball GARY (another of DuChey’s co-bloggers, who describes his hobbies as bowling, heckling people, and shouting really loud) and Avery LIBRELLE. Berg can’t get away before they notice him. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCAT, DUCHEY, GARY and LIBRELLE: Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Uh…hi, er, all of y…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCAT, DUCHEY, GARY and LIBRELLE: The founding fathers never envisioned “assault rifles when they wrote the Second Amendment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Huh. Forget for a moment that the British “Tower” Musket was the AK47 of its day – reliable, easy to train, with a high rate of fire. And the Kentucky Rifle was the sniper rifle of its day – hard to learn, a little fickle, but capable of killing people at undreamed-of ranges. Forget about all that for just a moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCAT, DUCHEY, GARY and LIBRELLE: Consider it forgotten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: No doubt. Know what else the founding fathers did? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCAT, DUCHEY, GARY and LIBRELLE: We’re not constitutional lawyers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: True. They required all citizens to keep one of the “assault rifles” of their day, and a battle or two’s worth of ammunition, at home, ready to go at a moment’s notice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCAT, DUCHEY, GARY and LIBRELLE: (Nothing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GARY: I’m going to hide peep through your windows until I can find something about you to write about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: So – no change, then?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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