{"id":38976,"date":"2020-03-09T21:16:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38976"},"modified":"2020-03-09T21:16:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:16:40","slug":"social-studies-mikhail-kalashnikov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/social-studies-mikhail-kalashnikov\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Studies: Mikhail Kalashnikov"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about social studies and philosophy: the tutor mentions a quote from Mikhail Kalashnikov.<\/h2>\n<p>\nMikhail Kalashnikov invented the AK-47 during World War II while recovering from battlefield wounds. &#8220;It&#8217;s a weapon for defence, not offence,&#8221; he continued to assert in years to come.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to construct farm machinery,&#8221; he also said. WWII changed his destiny; the AK-47 would become the world&#8217;s favourite defence rifle.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he felt regret for all the casualties resulting from people armed with AK-47s, he said no:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;I sleep well. It is the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.&#8221;&#8211;Mikhail Kalashnikov\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/worlds-deadliest-inventor-mikhail-kalashnikov-and-his-ak-47-126253\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2007\/jul\/07\/inventor-of-the-ak-47-still-not-losing-any-sleep\/\">spokesman.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about social studies and philosophy: the tutor mentions a quote from Mikhail Kalashnikov. Mikhail Kalashnikov invented the AK-47 during World War II while recovering from battlefield wounds. &#8220;It&#8217;s a weapon for defence, not offence,&#8221; he continued to assert in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/social-studies-mikhail-kalashnikov\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social Studies: Mikhail Kalashnikov<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38981,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38976\/revisions\/38981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}