{"id":78140,"date":"2021-06-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78140"},"modified":"2021-06-02T08:55:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:55:54","slug":"conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78140","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:  Mitch BERG is walking, sans ceremonial mask, into the Target on University Avenue, trying to calculate the number of people without masks in mandate-free, Karen-rich Saint Paul.  Focused on numbers, he doesn&#8217;t notice as Avery LIBRELLE, wearing three masks,  walks around the corner.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Oh, ssssshhhhhhhhut the front door, how ya been, Avery? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Nobody is coming for your guns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Democrats nationwide, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66090\">including in Minnesota<\/a>, are trying to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Are they at your door taking your guns <em>right this minute<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Er, no<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:   So they&#8217;re not coming for your guns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  So if they&#8217;re not coming for my guns in five minutes, but not literally carting off my gun safe right at this moment&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Then you&#8217;ve got nothing to complain about.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Huh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  But the whole &#8220;Second Amendment&#8221; thing is just a conspiracy to sell more guns and ammo.  It&#8217;s to profit from fear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Huh.  So the firearms and ammo industries staged &#8220;gun control&#8221; panic to improve their market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE: Exactly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  So if that were the case, wouldn&#8217;t the firearms and ammunition industries have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/increase-in-gun-ammo-sales-leads-to-low-inventory\/ar-BB1fpmFD\">made sure they were ready to <em>supply <\/em>the immense demand<\/a>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>But LIBRELLE has already wandered off to badger someone who&#8217;s not wearing a mask. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking, sans ceremonial mask, into the Target on University Avenue, trying to calculate the number of people without masks in mandate-free, Karen-rich Saint Paul. Focused on numbers, he doesn&#8217;t notice as Avery LIBRELLE, wearing three masks, walks around the corner. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh, ssssshhhhhhhhut the front door, how ya been, [&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-78140","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\/78140","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=78140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78141,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78140\/revisions\/78141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}