- Nov 14, 2010
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Leave the family alone, they don't speak for Eugene Stoner ...
Family of AR-15 Inventor Eugene Stoner: He Didn't Intend It for Civilians
And Mikhail Kalashnikov didn't intend his AK47 to be used for mass murders of civilians in Paris and Belgium either ... so what's your fvcking point NBC ?
and so is everyone else ...
But THAT's not what the headline BLASTS for the echo chamber to reverberate.
Family of AR-15 Inventor Eugene Stoner: He Didn't Intend It for Civilians
And Mikhail Kalashnikov didn't intend his AK47 to be used for mass murders of civilians in Paris and Belgium either ... so what's your fvcking point NBC ?
"Our father, Eugene Stoner, designed the AR-15 and subsequent M-16 as a military weapon to give our soldiers an advantage over the AK-47," the Stoner family told NBC News late Wednesday. "He died long before any mass shootings occurred. But, we do think he would have been horrified and sickened as anyone, if not more by these events."
and so is everyone else ...
The inventor's surviving children and adult grandchildren spoke exclusively to NBC News by phone and email, commenting for the first time on their family's uneasy legacy. They requested individual anonymity in order to speak freely about such a sensitive topic. They also stopped short of policy prescriptions or legal opinions.
But THAT's not what the headline BLASTS for the echo chamber to reverberate.