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Originally Posted by Cohaagen
That Yamamoto quote is a favourite line of right-wing internet posters, often cropping up in their signature along with George Orwell's "we sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf".
Unfortunately, like the Orwell quote, it is completely bogus. The man never said such a thing. Ironically, it was the likelihood that there would have been a rifle behind every blade of grass in Japan that in part led to the decision to drop the A-bomb instead of invading.
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Whooo hoo. First time i ever got accused of being on the right wing. All the local right wingers think im a left winger.
I did look up that quote out of curiosity after i hotlinked that picture. It sounded cool, but it sounded too cool, and looked it up finding it for the urban legend that it is. I was wondering if anyone would catch it or not.
Anyway untrue of source or not, the sentence itself is reasonably correct. I'll wager there's at least one firearm in every Home, Apartment, and RV in America. And my point still stands, Firearms, much like car's, are embedded in our culture. Only the cultural roots of firearms in our society go way back to the very founding. Hell, i'm not a Gun nut, far from it, i acutally sit on the fence as far as Assault weapons go, but even I own a couple of guns.