{"id":89873,"date":"2025-08-29T08:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89873"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:13:43","slug":"the-problem-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89873","title":{"rendered":"The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCENE:\u00a0 \u00a0Mitch BERG is having an Old Fashioned at a bar in northern Wisconsin.\u00a0 Engrossed in a conversation with the waitress, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE has walked in, wearing a “MEAT IS MURDER” t-shirt.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Of, for…the second time this week, how ya doing…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Shut up.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s the guns, stupid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BERG. So I’ve got a question for you, Avery.\u00a0 \u00a0Whenever a spree killer can be tied, however tenuously, to the right, the media and people like you get veeeery serious about dissecting connections to “extreme” ideology.\u00a0 Like Vance Boelter…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Extreme pro-life MAGAt!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 …but\u00a0<\/em>when it’s someone like the Covenant or Annunciation shooters, whose manifestos were like Gen-Z leftist movie screenplays, full of hate for Christians, Jews, conservatives, Trump…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 It’s the guns and only the guns!\u00a0 \u00a0And how\u00a0dare\u00a0<\/em>you blame all transgender people!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Where did I mention transgender people?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 You did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BERG: (Turns to stenographer sitting at next stool) Please read back the converstation starting with “shut up”:<\/p>\n

COURT REPORTER:\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 Starting from where Mist…er, Mizz…er…(looks to BERG with look of inciipient panic<\/em>)<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Don’t worry. Just read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

COURT REPORTER:\u00a0 OK.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Extreme pro-life MAGAt!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 …but\u00a0<\/em>when it’s someone like the Covenant or Annunciation shooters, whose manifestos were like Gen-Z leftist movie screenplays, full of hate for Christians, Jews, conservatives, Trump…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 I could have sworn I heard you call for the deaths of all transgender people.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 You’re thinking of Mayor Frey…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Shut up.\u00a0 Why are you bringing a court reporter with you?<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Seems I need one lately.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And SCENE.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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SCENE:\u00a0 \u00a0Mitch BERG is having an Old Fashioned at a bar in northern Wisconsin.\u00a0 Engrossed in a conversation with the waitress, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE has walked in, wearing a “MEAT IS MURDER” t-shirt.\u00a0\u00a0 LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg! BERG:\u00a0 Of, for…the second time this week, how ya doing… LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Shut up.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s the guns, stupid.\u00a0 BERG. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,22],"tags":[236,361],"class_list":["post-89873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-pc","category-victim-disarmament","tag-dramatization","tag-spree-killings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89873","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=89873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89874,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89873\/revisions\/89874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}