Happy Birthday to Mr. Kalashnikov!

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I'm suprised no one else noticed.:D Born 11-10-1919, Mikhail T. Kalashnikov turns 89 today. He outlives Eugene Stoner, who died in 1997 I believe. I'm sure he's proud to have seen the brainchild of a lowly tank seargent reach such heights. Over 80 million made and still going strong.

Here's to another six decades of Russia's finest. Long live the AK!
 
Erm, I think that's General Kalashnikov. In any case, happy birthday Mikhail, and thanks!
 
Happy birthday to a man that is indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam and other places.:mad:
 
Happy birthday to a man that is indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam and other places.
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Guns don't kill people and their designers are not responsible for the people that were killed by them. People kill other people. People are capable of evil, guns are not. Do not hate a man for creating a firearm, simply because other men used that firearm for evil. Mikhail Kalashnikov did not invent the AK47 for the Vietnamese. He invented it for his homeland. Do you hold Glock responsible for the deaths of 32 people at Virginia Tech? Or do you hold the shooter responsible?
 
Happy birthday to a man that is indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam and other places.
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At what point in time did AK's begin walking around killing people? I was always under the impression that the gun required a person to make it work. Just because the gun has been used by evil people to do evil things does not make the gun evil. I suppose we should consider Henry Ford an evil person for inventing the automobile, god knows how many people he's indirectly killed over the years:rolleyes:
 
Happy birthday to a man that is indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam and other places.
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That pretty much falls in line with everything the anti's say on a daily basis; that the gun itself is the cause of violence and crime.

The AK 47 is a tool. How it was and is used is up to the HUMAN holding it. If it hadn't been an AK it would have been something else.

Pearl Harbor was attacked by airplanes, do you hold Orville Wright responsible?
 
I just find it pathetic to see so many celebrate the life of a man who was our enemy (and probably still is).
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Our enemy? Really?

http://762x39.net/images/stoner-kalisnakov.jpg

Yup. Pretty blood-thirsty looking there. Standing right next to that great ENEMY of the Soivet people, Eugene Stoner.

Time passes. Our countries have made all friendly-like now (well, about as close as nations get, anyway) and the citizens of those countries have, as usual, found that they had little fundamental hatred for the citizens of their former "enemy."

If those men did their duty for their country when called upon, and have carried their animosity no further than the cessation of hostilities between their governments, then what cause do they have to be enemies?

If Japanese and American servicemen (and German and American, Vietnamese and American, etc) can meet on the past battlefields as fellow-soldiers and celebrate peace, then WHO ARE YOU to carry the hostility any farther?

-Sam
 
Yes, it is just a tool. It is THE tool that has been used to kill Americans and our allies.

You can own as many as you please, but to me it is a symbol of a repressive, antagonistic Russian enemy, and their axis of evil.

Personally I would not own one and put it in my safe next to My M4 or M1A.

Particularly on Veterans Day, the only place i want to see a AK is on the ground, in the hands of our dead enemies.
 
Yes, it is just a tool. It is THE tool that has been used to kill Americans and our allies. It is the gun that has taken our soldiers lives.

You can own as many as you please, but to me it is a symbol of a repressive, antagonistic Russian enemy, and their axis of evil.

Personally I would not own one and put it in my safe next to My M4 or M1A.

Particularly on Veterans Day, the only place i want to see a AK is on the ground, in the hands of our dead enemies.
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Thank you. Patriotism is lost on many here.
 
Thank you. Patriotism is lost on many here.
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Patriotism is misunderstood by many here, too.

Don't be quick to malign the patriotism of others just because they disagree with your view of an tool as a symbol. That could be a bit insulting.

-Sam
 
It's Veterans Day, for those of you who failed to remember.
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Actually, it's Veterans Day for all -- for those who have failed to remember (who are these absent-minded guys, anyway?) and for those of us who certainly do remember, too! (I'm kind of thinking we're in the majority here.)

Few, indeed, are the blessings for which our service men and women have not sacrificed. We owe them a debt none can repay.

-Sam
 
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