{"id":78254,"date":"2021-06-09T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78254"},"modified":"2022-11-11T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:18:40","slug":"other-than-that-mrs-lincoln-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78254","title":{"rendered":"Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCENE: Cat SCAT, the designated \u201cfact checker\u201d at the (possibly fictional) progressive blog \u201c\u201dMinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com<\/em>\u201c and office manager at a\u00a0small phrenology practice, approaches Mitch BERG at the afterparty for an AM1280 event. BERG doesn’t notice until it’s too late. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCAT: Merg. Nobody is coming for your guns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Oh, hey, Cat…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCAT: It’s just a fantasy spread by Hate Radio to help puff up gun sales. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: We talked about this the other day<\/a>. You seem to believe that until the SWAT team is busting down doors…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCAT: Your door<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Right, then I’ve got nothing to complain about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCAT: It’s just a scam to keep stupid angry fat white men in a state of paranoia that benefits the gun industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: So there’s no gun control?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCAT”. None. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG”. Other than ammo bans and requiring licensing to buy ammunition, or demands to carry liability insurance, while regulating the liability carriers out of the industry, or confiscatory taxes on guns, legal “felony traps” designed to turn unsuspecting people into a felon (such as the so called universal background checks that turn you into a felon by simply handing someone a gun and then having them hand it back), or requiring guns have non-existent or non-functional technology such as microstamping or smart gun technology, or elimination of preemption laws making it easier for gun owners to unknowingly break some locale\u2019s gun laws and giving local politicians the sort fo control over civil rights that’d be unthinkable in any other area, or allowing litigation against gun manufacturers over illegal use of their products, or eliminating the sale of gun parts without background checks (even though you’ll look long and hard for an example of a criminal building <\/em>their firearm), or banning classes of guns whose definitions are more fluid than a millennial humanities major’s gender identity, or shutting down gun ranges due to \u201cnoise pollution\u201d or \u201clead contamination\u201d, or creating lists of “allowable” guns, and then making it prohibitively expensive for manufacturers to get guns on the list, or mandating parts on guns that nobody actually wants, and making sure that over time, the list shrinks to nothing, while having the BATFE constantly reverse themselves on what is legal and what is not (bankrupting companies that manufactured items the ATF previously said were legal but now say aren\u2019t), and loading up statute books with laws that make self-defense onerous and legally fraught, and crowding the bench with judges who don’t think there’s a right to self-defense, much less to keep and bear arms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah you got a point. Other than that, I got nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(But SCAT has already wandered off after a shiny object). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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