[marktwain]

This should be a consideration for policy makers.

[grey_whiskers]

I recently had a conversation with someone at my job, who was railing against "those idiots who go on and on about the Constitutional right to guns, what about Tucson, what about Columbine"...

I very nearly told them that guns were the only thing keeping them out of the Salt Mine or the Gulag, but instead quoted Yamamoto, and then Jefferson's "the tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots" and explained that guns are like nukes: they are most effective when present but NOT used.

Didn't change the person's mind, but it slowed down their thoughtless, emotion-based rant.

Cheers!

[rellimpank]

—we aren’t going to get “invaded”—we are going to be destroyed from within—the process is already well along—

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“If a bass boat could be outfitted with modern weaponry that could drop a deadly barrage of .30 caliber ammo from one of those “mini-guns” along with a few well placed grenades fired from a compact launcher, these boats would indeed be a force to be reckoned with.”

I don't want to throw water on or accuse the writer of a fictional account, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal anywhere in the us to “mount” firearms to civilian watercraft.

[Free Vulcan]

Yamamoto’s quote reminds me of the story grandpa told when he was a kid. Great-grandpa would give him X number of bullets, and he was expected to come back with the same number of rabbits, or he’d get his butt whooped.

He didn’t miss much. Yamamoto knew that’s what he’d face if he ever tried to invade the U.S.

[hinckley buzzard]

The bit abut the revolution is fantasy though. Washington found the militia largely undisciplined and unreliable. The Continental Army, forged with the help of various foreign officer/advisors, became a conventional fighting army which met the British Army line to line and sometimes kicked their ass.

[Strategerist]

Americans fought the British by similar means during the Revolutionary War. The Redcoats were bewildered by these “uncivilized” colonist who fought from behind trees refusing to even form-up in the battle lines with which the British troops were familiar.

Ughh...not this myth again.

The Continental Army fought exactly the same way the British did.