{"id":7903,"date":"2016-06-24T10:27:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2016-06-24T10:27:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T16:27:23","slug":"jesus-would-be-alive-if-he-had-had-an-ak-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/jesus-would-be-alive-if-he-had-had-an-ak-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus would be alive if he had had an AK-47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA is working on a time machine. They plan to go back in time to arm oppressed people everywhere. (And to arm their oppressors, too &#8212; that&#8217;s just smart business and only fair.) They&#8217;ll start with automatic rifles for the apostles.<\/p>\n<p>If Africans had had firepower, they wouldn&#8217;t have been enslaved. (After all, the slavers did have guns.) If the Slaves had had guns, the Civil War would have ended sooner. (Slave holders had guns.)<\/p>\n<p>If women had had machine guns, they wouldn&#8217;t have been beaten and imprisoned for demanding the right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing standing between good and evil is a time traveler with a gun. See you at Little Big Horn. (Wait! No! Everyone had guns there.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA is working on a time machine. They plan to go back in time to arm oppressed people everywhere. (And to arm their oppressors, too &#8212; that&#8217;s just smart business and only fair.) They&#8217;ll start with automatic rifles for the apostles. If Africans had had firepower, they wouldn&#8217;t have been enslaved. (After all, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/jesus-would-be-alive-if-he-had-had-an-ak-47\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jesus would be alive if he had had an AK-47<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7904,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions\/7904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}