{"id":37,"date":"2015-10-05T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2015-11-19T16:10:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T16:10:36","slug":"if-it-were-up-to-me-by-cheryl-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/05\/if-it-were-up-to-me-by-cheryl-wheeler\/","title":{"rendered":"If It Were Up To Me by Cheryl Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Cheryl Wheeler&#8217;s official site:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The song lists all the excuses that people put forth for the increase in violence among children. The song ends with her saying: &#8220;But if it were up to me, I&#8217;d take away the guns.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Some have interpreted that to mean that Cheryl is in favor of getting rid of all guns. I think it is more accurate to say that the song promotes keeping guns away from unsupervised children. My interpretation of the song is that we can debate forever over the &#8220;cause&#8221; of increased violence, but children will keep getting killed until we do something to make it harder for children to get easy access to firearms.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherylwheeler.com\/songs\/iiwutm.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cherylwheeler.com\/songs\/iiwutm.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/05\/if-it-were-up-to-me-by-cheryl-wheeler\/\">Listen&#8230;<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If It Were Up To Me - Cheryl Wheeler\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Op7agdIFOGY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>If It Were Up to Me<\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>Words and Lyrics by:<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Cheryl Wheeler<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>Maybe it&#8217;s the movies, maybe it&#8217;s the books<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the bullets, maybe it&#8217;s the real crooks<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the drugs, maybe it&#8217;s the parents<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the colors everybody&#8217;s wearin<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the President, maybe it&#8217;s the last one<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the one before that, what he done<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the high schools, maybe it&#8217;s the teachers<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the tattooed children in the bleachers<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the Bible, maybe it&#8217;s the lack<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the music, maybe it&#8217;s the crack<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the hairdos, maybe it&#8217;s the TV<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the cigarettes, maybe it&#8217;s the family<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the fast food, maybe it&#8217;s the news<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s divorce, maybe it&#8217;s abuse<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the lawyers, maybe it&#8217;s the prisons<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the Senators, maybe it&#8217;s the system<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the fathers, maybe it&#8217;s the sons<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the sisters, maybe it&#8217;s the moms<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the radio, maybe it&#8217;s road rage<br \/>\nMaybe El Nino, or UV rays<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the army, maybe it&#8217;s the liquor<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the papers, maybe the militia<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the athletes, maybe it&#8217;s the ads<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the sports fans, maybe it&#8217;s a fad<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the magazines, maybe it&#8217;s the internet<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the lottery, maybe it&#8217;s the immigrants<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s taxes, big business<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the KKK and the skinheads<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the communists, maybe it&#8217;s the Catholics<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the hippies, maybe it&#8217;s the addicts<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the art, maybe it&#8217;s the sex<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the homeless, maybe it&#8217;s the banks<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the clearcut, maybe it&#8217;s the ozone<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the chemicals, maybe it&#8217;s the car phones<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the fertilizer, maybe it&#8217;s the nose rings<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;s the end, but I know one thing.<br \/>\nIf it were up to me, I&#8217;d take away the guns.<\/p>\n<p><em>(P) October 1, 1997<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Penrod And Higgins Music \/ Amachrist Music<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ACF Music Group<\/em><br \/>\n<em> International Copyright Reserved<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Cheryl Wheeler&#8217;s official site: &#8220;The song lists all the excuses that people put forth for the increase in violence among children. The song ends with her saying: &#8220;But if it were up to me, I&#8217;d take away the guns.&#8221; Some have interpreted that to mean that Cheryl is in favor of getting rid of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}