{"id":1718,"date":"2014-04-24T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/04\/24\/the-alt-history-question-of-day\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:24:00","slug":"the-alt-history-question-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"The Alt History Question Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11943,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/The_Guns_of_the_South&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260412135813\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/The_Guns_of_the_South&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 07:48:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 03:14:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 03:14:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11944,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/Pearl-Harbor-Novel-December-Pacific\\\/dp\\\/0312943393&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240523192736\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/Pearl-Harbor-Novel-December-Pacific\\\/dp\\\/0312943393&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 07:48:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 03:14:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 03:14:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11945,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.midwayusa.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11946,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.prnewswire.com\\\/news-releases\\\/launch-of-new-public-relations-agency-voxpop-public-relations-llc-shannon-troughton-named-40-under-40-by-pr-week-65339842.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nAlt History asks the question what-if. Such as what if the Confederacy was given AK-47s by time-traveling South Africans as in Harry Turtledove&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Guns_of_the_South\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guns of the South<\/a> or what if the Japanese had conducted a third strike on the morning of December 7th as in the Gingrich-Forstchen novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pearl-Harbor-Novel-December-Pacific\/dp\/0312943393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So here is my alt history question of the day: &nbsp;what if upon graduating from the University of Missouri Shannon Watts (or whatever her maiden name was back then) had taken a job with local firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwayusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midway USA<\/a> instead of going to work as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/launch-of-new-public-relations-agency-voxpop-public-relations-llc-shannon-troughton-named-40-under-40-by-pr-week-65339842.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a communications staffer<\/a> for then Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan (D-MO)?<\/p>\n<p>That question leads to a whole host of other questions such as:<\/p>\n<p>Would she have still ended up working for Monsanto, GE Healthcare, and Wellpoint as a PR flack?<\/p>\n<p>Would she have more readily identified with down home Americans like Larry and Brenda Potterfield rather than being billionaire Mike Bloomberg&#8217;s BFF?<\/p>\n<p>Would she have respected gun owners and their rights or would she still have used a Connecticut tragedy to reestablish her moribund PR career?<\/p>\n<p>Would we see her inside the Indiana Convention Center during the NRA Annual Meeting or outside of it protesting?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you can come up with your own series of follow-on what-if questions to my alt history question of the day.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alt History asks the question what-if. 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