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		oijaf888 on Dec 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AK47 assault rifle inventor Kalashnikov dies at 94 If a stack of AK47's fell on someone and killed them, would you attribute that death to the AK47s?

aaronem on Dec 23, 2013 [–]

Of course not; to do so would be foolish. The blame in that case would accrue either to the negligence of the person who stacked them, or, if they were blamelessly well stacked, to the carelessness of the person who brought them crashing down around his ears.

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