Mikhail Kalashnikov had died
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Re: Mikhail Kalashnikov had died
Just noticed, there's a small typo in the thread title - it says "had", not "has".
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Highlord Laan
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Re: Mikhail Kalashnikov had died
This means they can dig him up in forty years, knock the cosmaline off, and he'll work fine, right?
Now that that is out of my system, rest in peace sir. You'll be missed.
Now that that is out of my system, rest in peace sir. You'll be missed.
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Re: Mikhail Kalashnikov had died
Well, a guy who designs a machine gun that has been used to kill millions, and which has been used both as a weapon of liberation and a weapon of oppression, even being used as both at the same time by opposite sides of the same war in some cases...Siege wrote:s an aside, it's hysterically funny how badly the BBC apparently wants to paint Mr. Kalashnikov as some ambiguous force in world history.
Honestly, that sounds pretty ambiguous to me. Not good, not bad, ambiguous.
This is, by the way, not a compliment to BBC journalism.
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Re: Mikhail Kalashnikov had died
Simon_Jester wrote:
This is, by the way, not a compliment to BBC journalism.
The article originally had photo of a kid with a H&K MP5 and the caption "Lebanese Child with AK-47". They changed it, presumably after the Webernets crawled up it's ass about it.
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."