Posted on 01/13/2014 5:58:26 AM PST by marshmallow
He does not sound like a bad man. I truly hope we are not embracing the liberal idea that the gun is to blame for any killing. It is the holder who fires the weapon.
I can see a man who developed a weapon to help his country be tormented on seeing that same weapon used to enslave and kill others.
I will tip my glass to him tonight. May be rest in peace, and let us meet in the heavenly halls of God.
I watched the documentary ‘World War II From Space’ a couple of days ago. There is no doubt we were right to use the nukes. The Japanese were nuts (still are?), civilians throwing themselves off cliffs, donning suicide vests and throwing themselves under tanks. The nukes saved countless lives.
If the world is going to blame the weapon look no farther than the M-98 Mauser and the Arisaka.
Throw in a British SMLE for good measure.
Then there was Oliver Winchester’s widow who went to a fortune teller who convinced her that the spirits of the dead killed by her husband’s rifle were after her. Keep Building!
We now have other nuts living among us who do not disdain the wearing of suicide vests.
Any chance of finding that story online? I already tried my best and got nothing
Yes. I met Gen Tibbetts, and he was a wonderful man. He served his country, helped end a World war, and probably saved the lives of millions of Americans AND Japanese.
I read it years ago in a collection of Chekhov’s “humorous short stories”, most of which I recall were depressing.
Good for us that the devil can’t read minds.
This guy like others have said is not guilty for the people killed. It’s just a tool, it’s who uses it and how that’s responsible.
Yeah, right. Rest easy, Mikhail. I’m not about to believe the Soviets wouldn’t have gladly murdered their own with a weapon designed by Tokarev, Simonov, or Dragunov.
I saw the quote but there's no mention of when he said it. Meanwhile, the stories about him expressing regret say this was a position that he'd reached very recently.
He could have had later regrets, it wouldn't be that unusual for someone facing their own mortality.
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