He's responsible for killing more people than Stalin and Hitler combined.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mik ... story.html
RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
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RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
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- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
GDKP;PKPBob Juch wrote:He's responsible for killing more people than Stalin and Hitler combined.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mik ... story.html
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
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.”
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
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.
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.
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Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
Bob Juch wrote:He's responsible for killing more people than Stalin and Hitler combined.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mik ... story.html
What a foolish comment.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
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War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
I'll agree with you on that one, BIT.BackInTex wrote:Bob Juch wrote:He's responsible for killing more people than Stalin and Hitler combined.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mik ... story.html
What a foolish comment.
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christie1111
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Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
Guns don't kill people. People kill people.franktangredi wrote:I'll agree with you on that one, BIT.BackInTex wrote:Bob Juch wrote:He's responsible for killing more people than Stalin and Hitler combined.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mik ... story.html
What a foolish comment.
But I am in favor of limiting assault type guns so there is that.
But I do think RIP is more appropriate.
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Re: RI? Mikhail Kalashnikov
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
“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
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.