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RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 12:03 pm
by Bob Juch
He's responsible for killing more people than Stalin and Hitler combined.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mik ... story.html
Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:28 pm
by themanintheseersuckersuit
Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:41 pm
by Estonut
Interviewers regularly asked him what he thought of the damage and suffering his weapons had caused. He usually answered with some variation of what he said in the Kremlin after a celebration of his 90th birthday in 2009.
“I sleep soundly,” he said. “I created a weapon to defend the motherland. It was not my fault that it was sometimes used where it should not have been. That is the fault of politicians.”
Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 3:56 pm
by bazodee
To me, it's an RIP.
If you give Alfred Nobel (the inventor of dynamite) an RIP, I don't see much difference.
RIH is really reserved for people who played a much more active role in perpetuating evil.
Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 11:56 pm
by BackInTex
Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 10:47 am
by franktangredi
BackInTex wrote:
What a foolish comment.
I'll agree with you on that one, BIT.
Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:14 pm
by christie1111
franktangredi wrote:BackInTex wrote:
What a foolish comment.
I'll agree with you on that one, BIT.
Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
But I am in favor of limiting assault type guns so there is that.
But I do think RIP is more appropriate.
Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 6:41 pm
by themanintheseersuckersuit
MOSCOW — Russia has announced funeral arrangements for Lt. Gen. Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle.
“Comrade Kalashnikov will be buried in a pit of mud with full military honors,” said General-Major Saiga Molot, a spokesman for the Russian army. “After a week, we will exhume his body, clean it off, and put him back to work. We expect that there shall be no issue with his functions.”
Read more:
http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/12/mikha ... z2oRVeYNEH