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LA Times Calls Kalashnikov “Merchant Of Death”

By Brian Anderson on December 24, 2013 Subscribe to Brian Anderson's Feed

In case you hadn’t heard, Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47, passed away yesterday at the age of 94. Considering the gun control agenda of our media, the news coverage of his death wasn’t terribly disrespectful. At least that what I thought until I read Paul Whitefield’s editorial in the LA Times. Starting the piece with “The merchant of death is dead,” the writer goes on to blame the famed gun designer for virtually every combat death since WWII.

The article notes that Kalashnikov is a hero to his homeland of Russia, but claims he is a cancer on the rest of the world.

But for humanity, Kalashnikov and his gun have been a tragedy. The AK-47 has spread misery and death to every part of the globe. Remember: More than 36,000 Americans died in the Korean War; more than 58,000 died in the Vietnam War; more than 2,000 in Iraq and more than 4,000 in Afghanistan. How many fell victim to Kalashnikov’s gun?

Because if Kalashnikov hadn’t come up the AK-47, the Soviets wouldn’t have had an infantry rifle and would have simply folded the Red Army. This is one of those ridiculous gun grabber arguments that places all of the blame on the inanimate object. The politicians that started those conflicts should take none of the blame for the deaths: it was the gun’s fault.

And then the article goes for a guilt-by-association thing by pointing out all of the wicked people that favor the AK-47:

To the drug lords of South America, the gangbangers of America’s ghettos, the child soldiers of Africa, the Taliban of Afghanistan and countless others, his gun is the great equalizer.

Whitefield takes it one step further in making Kalashnikov seem worse than Hitler and Stalin combined. He compares him to Robert Openhiemer, the father of the atomic bomb. After witnessing the first explosion of his horrible creation, Openheimer reportedly said, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

The LA Times scribe likens the two, writing, “In his own way, Kalashnikov also became ‘Death, the destroyer of worlds.’”

But it’s not enough to demonize the gun designer; the writer also feels the need to belittle anyone that uses his guns. He quotes C.J. Chivers who wrote a book about the AK-47. While pointing out how beautifully simple the Kalashnikov design was, the author says:

Together these traits meant that once this weapon was distributed, the small-statured, the mechanically disinclined, the dimwitted and the untrained might be able to wield, with little difficulty or instruction, a lightweight automatic rifle that could push out blistering fire for the lengths of two or three football fields

Whitefield seizes on this, saying, “The dimwitted and the untrained: Great, just the folks you want to have a gun capable of firing hundreds of rounds a minute, right?”

So, not only is Kalashnikov responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, he enabled stupid people to get in on the killing. What a complete crock.

This writer is absolutely giddy that Kalashnikov has died. He might as well be singing, “Ding dong the witch is dead.” His disrespect for a great firearms designer stems from ignorance of the true causes of gun violence. He, like all gun-grabbing libtards, can’t conceive of the idea that people are responsible for their own actions. It’s much easier to blame the gun.