Justo Miranda said:
Messieur Guillotin died proving the efficiency of his invention.
Would the French revolution have claimed fewer victims, if they would have been hung or shot ?
Justo Miranda said:
Alfred Nobel found a way to compensate the victims of his invention
AFAIK, the reason for his invention was the wish to make the use of explosives, mainly nitroglycerin,
safer.
About Kalashnikov, I don't think, that his rifle made the world a better place, but I don't think neither, that it
would be without it. Terrorists or Somali pirates just would use then another type.
Don't think, that John T. Thompson can be blamed for the death of those killed by the American mafia
during the '20s, although the "Tommy Gun" ws their favorite weapon, as we can learn from all those
movies.
On the other hand, to my opinion there's no need, to honour for example Gregorii Schpagin or John C.
Garand for their "efforts" to relieve the world from Adolf Hitler. They were engineers, who created succesful
weapons, but they had no influence to the use of it.