[Marc Montgomery]

isnt it fascinating how the thread started out talking about mental wackos shooting people and ended up talking about metric measure?

back to topic, Kalashnikov always said he had no remorse for making the AK, that he invented it to protect the motherland and if people used it to kill each other around the world it was politicians fault not his
..but now revealed is that he had remorse shortly before his death and asked Orthodox religious leaders about it... saying he had spiritual pain..and asking them if he was to blame for the slaughter around the world using the gun he created.

Apparently the reply was the church supported the designer saying the weapon was intended to protect the motherland and that was all and he could not be spiritually condemned for that.

Oppenhiemer and Rotblat invented the nuclear bomb (relunctantly) to end war..fearing that Hitler was trying to do it

Gattling invented his "machine gun" believing it would reduce the size of armies, reduce killing and make war futile.