Matt Bors for December 30, 2013
Transcript:
Mikhail Kalashnikov: I am here! Angel: Mikhail Kalashnikov! 1919 to 2013. Nice. Angel: Let's see...in the negative column, you invented a gun that killed a bajillion people, the AK-47... Mikhail Kalashnikov: More like AK-forty Heaven! Angel: heh. Yeah okay. Head on in.
Kalishnikov was just trying to build a gun that would work for poorly trained, undernourished, unsupported Russian soldiers in the Siberian winter. The fact that it could be easily used by other people outside Russia was not on his mind at the time.
If he’d lived under capitalism rather than Communism, we might now have a Kalishnikov Peace Prize committee.