AK-47 designer dies at 94.

Some quotes from the man himself:

• "I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists ... I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawn mower"
• "Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer ... I always wanted to construct agriculture machinery."
• "I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't be. The politicians are more to blame for this."
• "When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed' ... So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable." (source: wikipedia)

My old man is retired federal law enforcement. I was raised around guns and believe that people have the right to defend themselves from criminals and tyrannical governments. I do not have a basic anti-gun stance and when I see stuff in the news about kids shooting up schools, instead of demanding more laws, I wonder why nobody (especially the vehemently anti-gun crowd who portrays themselves as more evolved, compassionate and sophisticated) ever talks about society's responsibility in it all.

From Hollywood to video games, our children are desensitized to violence. All of the Hollywooders that chime in on gun laws will never question what they do, how they glamorize violence. Take a look at the first person shooter games (like Call of Duty) where the goal is to run around killing people - increasingly realistic graphics and all.

And if someone does question society's role in all of this, they are labeled "whacko religious right", even if, like me, they are not religious or socially conservative.

All of that being said, no way in hell would I want to leave this Earth with an accomplishment like this dude did under my belt.

The AK-47 is an assault rifle, and it was designed as a weapon, not to shoot and kill ducks or squirrels, but human beings. It is not a multi-purpose weapon. It's sole purpose, the only reason it was designed and created, was so that it could be used to kill human beings.

What's it take to sit down and pour your mind and efforts into designing something you know is going to be used to kill other humans. What does one think when they design such weapons? Do they think to themselves:

"Simply awesome. This rifle I just designed is going to kill soooo many people. It will destroy lives, be used to kill children, pointed at men while they watch their wives gang raped, etc. Children's heads will explode because of this kick ass rifle I am designing. I rule. I am the best damn human killing rifle designer around and people best give me my due respect for my work, lest they piss me off and I pop a cap in their ass."

War is a racket and most can be avoided, like WWII, the impetus behind the AK-47. Not only can they be avoided, but most are intentionally created by the oligarcichal structure that rules the world behind the scenes.

Me personally, well the world could use a few less AK-47 designers as there would be more people alive today if that were the case. Again, I am not an anti-gun dude, in general, but my opinion is that someone that designs a weapon strictly for murdering other human beings is not a positive contributor to the world. He has not helped humanity one bit.

The only thing the AK-47 has ever done is killed a whole bunch 'o people.

I do not know how I would cope with life were I to know that a weapon I intentionally designed to kill humans has successfully done so many, many, many times over. That it has been pointed at children and the trigger pulled.

Kalishnikov brought nothing positive to the world - his invention has only added to the death and destruction. I don't know how the dude lived with himself all of these years ...

You can say the same things about the inventors of nuclear weapons many times over. There is no certainty that they will never be used again and there are still enough around to kill every person on earth. In fact, you can say the same thing about every engineer working in defense industries.

But you have to look at the situation in 1942 when Nazi Germany was invading the USSR. That invasion cost up to 20 million deaths. That was when Kalashnikov started to dabble in weapons design. His motivation then was to defeat the Nazis and nothing else.

Quote from some military movie...

Soldier, those AK47s will blow a hole in your ass the size of a basketball.

Warfare has many lessons that can be extracted and applied to marketing.

Considering this is the Warrior Forum and we have a WarRoom available to us here, I'm quite surprised we don't discuss the topic of warfare here more often.

For example in the U.S. Marines, they believe leaders are created, not born.

There are two objectives of leadership:
1. Accomplish the mission
2. Troop welfare

The priorities must be in that order to win the war, or the sacrifices will have been for nothing.

The two objectives of the BizOpp community:
1. Make money
2. Teach others to make money

Conclusion: The best thing you can do for your prospects is ask for their money. If you can't accomplish the mission and make a fortune, you're doing a great disservice to your prospects and to yourself.

I've found this insight helpful to overcome the fear of being an online salesman.

David,
Are you a marine? if not you should NOT say those words.

to the rest,

I am probably going to get banned for a few months because ...

WTF.

are you kidding ... a russian made the AK, because they needed something better.
They were being invaded, over run, hungry, losing to everybody .... ect.

At invention they were NOT expanding. They just wanted to survive ( live )

The AK was made to stop advancement on the country.

The guy who invented it was just smart. He produced what was needed at the time.

Death and whore mongering is not on his head

I applaud him, heck I wish I was as smart as he was.



the rest of the world only buys the ak and the ak-b because its so well made.

again... genius.

the way its made brings the price down... one working part. ... wow.
in the real world only electronics do that.

but he did it .. way back when ... to help his country ...

A - frig gen mazing ... for close to 100 years
hats off, I hope you found whatever it is you believe in.
In my words ... Rock the f*ck on bro !