Take a pill, it was meant to be a joke. I guess I forgot to add the happy face so people would realize that, my fault.
Today - Mikhail Kalashnikov - 90 years old
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Take a pill, it was meant to be a joke. I guess I forgot to add the happy face so people would realize that, my fault.
Греки любви россиян это никогда не случится
С Днем Рождения Михаил Тимофеевич!!!
Извините я не понял
I am affraid my limited Russian is failing me.
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mine is prob just as bad but if you didnt understand i said Greeks love Russians it will never happen.
I got some of that on the stupid translator, but the word order was all over the place. Thanks.
I'm a pro-legal gun ownership person, I'm right wing, etc.
That said, I'm not in any way bowing down to the inventor of the AK47 rifle. That rifle, mainly in the hands of our enemies, has killed so many millions of people around the world that it would be hard to identify a worse scourge...
Let's say I'm not an admirer of him and his invention.
I had plenty of chances to buy one when they were $400 and unrestricted and never wanted one.
BTW, I've read articles where he indicated his frustration at what his rifle has become...he only intended it to be used in defence of his fatherland.
That said, I'm not in any way bowing down to the inventor of the AK47 rifle. That rifle, mainly in the hands of our enemies, has killed so many millions of people around the world that it would be hard to identify a worse scourge...
Let's say I'm not an admirer of him and his invention.
I had plenty of chances to buy one when they were $400 and unrestricted and never wanted one.
BTW, I've read articles where he indicated his frustration at what his rifle has become...he only intended it to be used in defence of his fatherland.
That's like blaming Ford for bad drivers.
It was a great design , and still is , note the variants of the ak47 still in active use today.
He invented the gun for russia, how would he know his design would be vilified
by being so popular among terror groups and others whom we see as "enemies" ?
I am born in a political camp, where, in case of WW3 had happened, and as a soldier/sailor, I would, among others, also would have been at the business end of an AK-47.
However, I do admirer a wounded tank commander, Mikhael Kalashnikov, for his patriotisme, in inventing a "better mouse trap", the AK-47, when he realized that his compatriots were given and using inferior weapons to the invading nazi's.
The communist soviet system, spread the manufacturing of the AK-47 as a "good will", to it's then client states.
Other countries, like Israel, used the AK-47 as a basis for the "Galil" rifle.
However, I do admirer a wounded tank commander, Mikhael Kalashnikov, for his patriotisme, in inventing a "better mouse trap", the AK-47, when he realized that his compatriots were given and using inferior weapons to the invading nazi's.
The communist soviet system, spread the manufacturing of the AK-47 as a "good will", to it's then client states.
Other countries, like Israel, used the AK-47 as a basis for the "Galil" rifle.
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- St. Paul AB
I've read and seen some of the interviews where he was being badgered about his "killing machines." Very unfair and distressing to a man who wanted nothing more than to give his fellow soldiers the best tool for the job. You or I would have done no different, and once his design was submitted to the collective, it was out of his hands. I heard there is an estimated 50 million Kalashnikovs in circulation, that is one in ten firearms on the planet. Ten times the number Model 1894 Winchesters. Besides without it, how would the Liberal media carry out their sworn duty to report the news accurately? See attached diagram.
Did anyone here know that during the Space Race, N.A.S.A. spent millions (in 1960's dollars) developing a pen to write in zero gravity? The Russians just bought pencils. Those Bolsheviks... keepin' it simple since 1917.
Did anyone here know that during the Space Race, N.A.S.A. spent millions (in 1960's dollars) developing a pen to write in zero gravity? The Russians just bought pencils. Those Bolsheviks... keepin' it simple since 1917.
easyrider604
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They should have treated Daimler, Benz and Henry Ford the same, for inventing (?) and developing the automobile. Imagine the road carnage prevented and millions of lives saved if the automobile had never been invented.
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Also the seemingly endless C.A.W. strikes, government bailouts, environmental damage, oil industry gouging, and drive-by shootings (you can't have one without the other). During the advent of the automobile age, would you believe the horseless carriage and its internal combustion engine were touted as the cure to the environmental and logistical problems caused by tens of thousands of dead horses every week in New York City alone? Whew! We dodged a bullet there. Also the first cars on the road were driven by batteries and electric drives. Man, what were they thinking? How are the poor companies like Standard Oil and Exxon going to make ends meet?
MapleSugar
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Well, *GASP!* during Viet Nam, the Americans were sometimes killed by weapons manufactured in their own country. It seems in lieu of assisting the Vietnamese with direct military support to keep the French from returning at the end of WW2, the Americans gave them massive amounts of weapons that had been stockpiled for the invasion of Japan. You can find M1 Garands, M1 carbines, BAR's, M16's, and other American designs still killing people around the globe.
If you have rejected a firearm design because of propaganda, then I hope you do not shoot Mauser rifles either. I imagine they have killed millions of Allied soldiers from the Boer War on.
BTW, Russians consider their country "Mother Russia."
