With More “Victories” Like This…

SCENE: Avery LIBRELLE is switching a regular cucumber label to an organic cuke when he sees Mitch BERG picking out a piece of ginger root. LIBRELLE walks over to BERG.

LIBRELLE: Hey, Merg!

BERG: Huh? Oh, sh…hi, Avery. What’s up?

LIBRELLE: We won a huge victory over the NRA!

MITCH: Oh yeah?

LIBRELLE: Yeah! Now, people won’t be able to kill people in schools!

MITCH: Er, Avery? Guns are already illegal on school grounds. It’s federal law. Of course, the only people it affects are people with carry permits. It’s already illegal for anyone who doesn’t have a California permit to carry a gun in public, much less on school grounds.

LIBRELLE: Right! So they can’t go nuts and shoot up schools!

MITCH: And your example of a person with a carry permit shooting up a school is…who?

LIBRELLE: Hundreds!

MITCH: Name one.

LIBRELLE: It’s settled science.

MITCH: OK. One example?

LIBRELLE: It’s settled. That means the information has been sealed. Anyway – this is a huge win.

MITCH: Because now, people who carried guns legally, but not on school grounds, and who never have caused any problems at schools much less killed anyone, are double-barred from carrying guns…

LIBRELLE: Yep!

MITCH: While the criminals continue to do as they please.

LIBRELLE: Hey! Trigger warning!

MITCH: Huh?

LIBRELLE: “Criminal” is racist!

(And SCENE).

7 thoughts on “With More “Victories” Like This…”

To paraphrase what someone posted here (I think)…..I’d like a count. How many mass shootings occur in Gun Free Zones, vs at gun ranges.

They are trying to do to guns what they have done with cigarettes. Keep pushing at the margins. They have had mixed success.

“Trigger warning”? Really, in a discussion about guns? Bad one, Mitch. I applaud it!

Personally, my version of a trigger warning is what I tell folks when they borrow my S&W .44 – “Careful, it’s a target gun: the trigger pull is very smooth and light.”