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Kalashnikov Joins With Amnesty International

Well, he IS getting senile... From Yahoo/AP:

Mikhail Kalashnikov says he designed the assault rifle that bears his name to fend off the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

But six decades later, he laments its transformation into the worldwide weapon of choice for terrorists and gangsters.

"Whenever I look at TV and I see the weapon I invented to defend my motherland in the hands of these bin Ladens I ask myself the same question: How did it get into their hands?" the 86-year-old Russian gun maker said.

"I didn't put it in the hands of bandits and terrorists and it's not my fault that it has mushroomed uncontrollably across the globe. Can I be blamed that they consider it the most reliable weapon?" he said.

The question is especially acute as an 11-day U.N. conference on curbing the small-arms trade convenes June 26 in New York. Kalashnikov is thinking of sending the delegates a statement.

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At the U.N conference, human rights groups will push for an international treaty banning the export of small arms and other conventional weapons to countries where they are likely to be used to trample human rights.

Kalashnikov said Amnesty International and Oxfam, the British charity, have asked him to write a statement for their campaign against small-arms proliferation, and he is also thinking of sending a separate statement addressed to the U.N conference.

If some third-world governments are using the AK's to "trample human rights" then rather than banning the sale and export of them, the UN and other so-called "human rights" groups ought to be making sure that AK's are also available and used to fight for human rights and be provided to those who are being "trampled upon".

Instead, they follow the faulty (and proven wrong) logic that banning guns will stop bad people from having them and using them for evil. Cities such as DC and Chicago prove this everyday when they prevent the law-abiding from handgun ownership, thereby empowering the criminals and thugs to prey on them.

As the saying goes, "God created man... Sam Colt made them equal." (Actually, I suspect the original went, "Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but Sam Colt made them equal.")

Too bad Kalashnikov never heard that one. Or the UN. Or all the phony "human rights" NGO groups.