Not Ashamed of America’s Gun Culture

[Red James Cash]

Not Ashamed of America’s Gun Culture

R.G. Yoho
clashdaily.com
January 2, 2013

The other day in our local newspaper, there were three political columns on the editorial page, all three of them one-sidedly calling for gun control and moaning about America’s “Gun Culture.”

As a law-abiding gun owner, I must say that I am a part of America’s gun culture. I am proud of it. In addition, I often thank God for it.

During World War II, the most brutal fighting experienced by our military were the battles waged against the Japanese Imperial Army. Moreover, the inhumane conditions faced by our captured American POWs and the atrocities visited upon them by their Japanese captors was like nothing faced by most of those in German prison camps.

On Iwo Jima, over 7,000 American soldiers were killed, some of them forced to engage in hand-to-hand combat. About that same number of Americans lost their life at Guadalcanal.

Therefore, one can only wonder how many Americans — civilians and military alike — would have died had the Japanese chosen to invade the mainland of the United States.

Japanese General Yamamoto said, “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”

Their decision not to invade the United States was a direct result of what they believed to be America’s “gun culture.”
Therefore, you should thank God for it too.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

During that same time, the Japanese invaded China, a nation without a gun culture.

In Nanking, the Japanese killed over 250,000 civilians.

Soldiers deliberately raped women in front of their husbands. They forced fathers to rape their own daughters. They forced sons to rape their mothers. Moreover, they killed any family member who tried to intervene.

The Japanese soldiers impaled infants on their bayonets, tossing them back and forth, spearing their bleeding, lifeless, tiny bodies on their guns like it was a game.

And had Yamamoto chosen to invade our mainland, then you would have seen the same nearly-unspeakable atrocities occurring right in the streets of America.

You should thank God for our gun culture.

Nearly every nation that practiced gun control has eventually seen their citizens wiped out in acts of mass murder or genocide.

The same thing would happen here as well.

As a Western author, some would say I write stories that glorify America’s gun culture. As a gun owner and hunter, I proudly exercise my right to engage in America’s gun culture. As an American who respects the Constitution our Founders penned for us, I also celebrate our gun culture.

America’s gun culture, I praise it; I enjoy it. I honor it. I celebrate it. I am proud of it. I write stories about it. I often spend my leisure hours participating in it. I fill my freezer and my belly with it.

America’s gun culture, I believe God instituted it, our Founders gave everything to establish it, and our military often died to protect it.

I believe in America’s gun culture.

So should you!

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Oooohhh, such PRIDE!

 

[Red James Cash]

Better to have pride in something than to look in a mirror and have pride in nothing.

 

[Dano Sverige]

How long are you going to ramble on and hiding behind false statements to justify what YOU believe? The purpose of the attack wasn't "invasion"!

" You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.

• It has been declared this attribution is "unsubstantiated and almost certainly bogus, even though it has been repeated thousands of times in various Internet postings. There is no record of the commander in chief of Japan’s wartime fleet ever saying it.","

Got the messege? :P

 

[jeff of pa]

How long are you going to ramble on and hiding behind false statements to justify what YOU believe? The purpose of the attack wasn't "invasion"!

" You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.

• It has been declared this attribution is "unsubstantiated and almost certainly bogus, even though it has been repeated thousands of times in various Internet postings. There is no record of the commander in chief of Japan’s wartime fleet ever saying it.","

Got the messege? :P

You are correct there is no evidence that Yamamoto ever said this.
is Simply Propaganda.

and as far as the "artrocities" Mentioned, havn't our soldiers been accused & in some cases proven to do the same ? War is war. nobody has a right to throw the first stone IMO

and some of this doesn't seem to help the anti gun control movement

 

[Rebel - KGC]

DUNNO... the "invasion" MAY be from "within"...

 

[spartacus53]

Dano / Jeff, you are both wrong.. If it's on the internet, it has to be true

And no, I won't give you my source either.. Google it

 

[jerseyben]

Dano / Jeff, you are both wrong.. If it's on the internet, it has to be true

And no, I won't give you my source either.. Google it

Bazinga!

 

[jerseyben]

FYI: FactCheck.org : Misquoting Yamamoto

 

[spartacus53]

Now that's embarrassing, the quote magically disappeared

So much for the logic of getting your info from the net

 

[Rebel - KGC]

QUESTION... MY "puter" is on AMERICAN soil (Virginia); DS is on my "puter"... "posting" comments. Is he NOW, a VISITOR on "AMERICAN" soil? NOT sure of the answer, myself...

 

[Dano Sverige]

Probably makes me more "American" than you mate to some politicos lol. Now, pass my green card and where's the nearest welfare offices?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Your correct there is no proof he did or didn't say that, but there is proof he said this.

"Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices."
As quoted in At Dawn We Slept (1981) by Gordon W. Prange, p. 11; this quote was stated in a letter to Ryoichi Sasakawa prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Japan knew we had no army to speak of, it was public knowledge and known at that time we were isolationist, our army was tiny, using weapons, uniforms and supplies left over from WWI. We were not building armor or munitions plants, Japan had a major military machine with the latest in weapons. After Pearl Harbor we had no Pacific fleet to speak of, we had carriers but no battle ships or escort ships to protect them, they were all either heavily damaged or at the bottom of the harbor. Why didn't Japan invade the west coast, we were not at war with Germany yet...We were wide open for invasion.....

It was well known to the Japanese that the American population was heavily armed, we were not like any other of the other countries they had invaded or were going to invade, they would not only have to fight our small army, they would have to fight a large armed American population every single inch of the way and they knew that.......

 

[Dano Sverige]

By all accounts Japan never tried to win a head to head war vs the US. They wanted to keep a steady rythm of victories over them, while establishing a double layer of ring defences on the pacific (phillipines-marianas-marcus island was the inner, NG-solomons-Marshalls-wake-eastern aleutians was the outter) to convince the US that a counterattack was unfeasible. They never intended to invade the US mainland as such, as far as I can tell.

Midway was never in the initial plans of Japan when the war started. It was out of the twin concentric defence rings they planned to set up in the pacific, and too far from the mainland (and too close to Hawaii) to set an easy invasion. The reasons to attack Midway rested mostly in the aftermath of the doolittle raid over tokyo. Pearl Harbor had crippled the US battleline but their carriers were still unharmed, and Yamamoto wanted those carriers to be sunk at all costs. The attack on Tokyo was an insult to the Japanese armed forces (and the IJN in particular), and had been launched from carriers. And the US Carrier striking force was the only offensive weapon left in US inventory by then, so it only made sense to force a major battle to trap and sink them. Midway was intended to be that battle, the island was of secondary or even tertiary importance, what Yamamoto wanted was the US carriers...things turned out to be pretty different tho.

Had Midway been a Japanese victory what would've happened?...probably not much. Hawaii was out of the scope of probable (or even possible) japanese targets because it was almost unfeasible to successfully invade it-it would've overstretched the japanese navy to the point of rupture.

US mainland was completely out of question-the distances involved were extreme.Remember aswell that both to invade hawaii and/or the Eastern US a lot of troops would've been needed. The Navy did not have enough manpower to pull something like that (the Japanese Marine force was mostly based on regimental combat teams for amphib operations of limited scope), and the Army was:

1-Absolutely not going to cooperate with the navy, at least not easily (japanese Army-Navy rivalry was extreme, they fought each other constantly). That would mean that one of the key points of any long range invasion like Hawaii or US would be poisoned from the start -no interbranch cooperation meant the operation would be a disaster from the start.

2-already heavily commited both in China, Burma/India, and New Guinea. There was a hefty manpower reserve in Manchukuo but neither the Imperial staff nor the Army staff wanted to weaken that force too much because they wanted it to act as a deterrent against possible Soviet agression. The Japanese Army without taking large units out of Manchukuo-which was politically impossible to pull off, would've had no resources to mount a successful large scale invasion in the US Mainland.

3-Lack of proper amphibious resources. The japanese landings at the start of the war were doing against unprepared enemies, and using barely adequate ships as amphibious transports. To land in USA would be very very different than landing on, say, Legaspi. The scope of the operation would be much different, the ammount of troops to be landed ,too, the distances from the Japanese supply sources (the mainland) would be all the way across the pacific meaning enormous travel times for the supply convoys, and Japan had not enough ships to keep such a invasion supplied.

Those 3 points were well known for all the IMperial staff and of course by the IJA. They would've never agreed to such an operation. There's also the important part of intel and recce. It was nigh impossible for Japan to conduct a proper recconaisance over the US mainland, and it would've been very difficult to the point of almost impossible to conduct a proper research on the possible landing locations.

We all know the ammount of preparation work the landings on Normandy needed, and the immense logistical problems faced by the allied force in france afterwards after one of the mulberries was put out of order, cherbourg port destroyed by the germans, and Antwerp not captured until late in 1944. The japanese had quite a stretch of water to cross (quite bigger than the Channel), no Mulberries at all (they were an allied improvisation), and would've needed a similar or bigger ammount of troops to succesfully invade US mainland.

Nope-it was impossible. Japan never planned nor intended to invade the US mainland. It was well out of reach for them, and they always knew it.

 

[truckinbutch]

Some good points , Dano . So ,they attacked an unwitting , ill equipped foreign force without any desires of total victory as a final outcome . 'WE got what WE want so; now , let's quit and be friends .'
The logic of that escapes me .
History shows that we managed to move enough manpower and supplies the same , and longer , distance to kick the crap out of them while fighting a three front war .
And pulling the collective British teat out of the wringer at the same time .
I think that is what gives you such a sour attitude . We spanked your butt's twice and sent you home twice for misbehavior . And then in two subsequent wars WE came over with fresh diapers for you and saved your butt's ...............

 

[Rebel - KGC]

I see the Dec. 7th attack as a message from Japan to American Navy; the Pacific Ocean belongs to Japan... do NOT come further WEST towards Japan; I DO NOT think it was to conquer the Mainland (USA)... ANYWAY! Japan made a BIG mistake, and PAID for it. My ex-father-in-law (RIP), was 5th Division US Marine on Iwo Jima... I will NEVER forget the stories he told us, ALWAYS on Feb. 19th... EVERY year. ONLY time, he would let himself, remember...

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Probably makes me more "American" than you mate to some politicos lol. Now, pass my green card and where's the nearest welfare offices?

LOL! Let me explain how Welfare eligibility is determined; determined by STATES. Localities have City/County Dept. of Welfare/Human Services; THEY are the ones who decides ppl to be determined eligible; DoW/HS investigate welfare cheats, frauds, etc. The FEDS simply have the pot of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for states to "tap" into based on ratio, etc. NOW! WHERE does the FEDS get this $$$$$$$$$$$$? TAXES paid by US citizens AND foreign visitors (state/Fed taxes from hotels, restaurants, "fun resorts", etc.). With-holding paying your taxes enhances the problem, FED going "broke"? Look into YOUR mirror; MORE later...

 

[Dano Sverige]

Some good points , Dano . So ,they attacked an unwitting , ill equipped foreign force without any desires of total victory as a final outcome . 'WE got what WE want so; now , let's quit and be friends .'
The logic of that escapes me .
History shows that we managed to move enough manpower and supplies the same , and longer , distance to kick the crap out of them while fighting a three front war .
And pulling the collective British teat out of the wringer at the same time .
I think that is what gives you such a sour attitude . We spanked your butt's twice and sent you home twice for misbehavior . And then in two subsequent wars WE came over with fresh diapers for you and saved your butt's ...............

Lol, only just found this post. Anyhow, tell me, do you constantly run around shouting - "Da plane boss! Da plane!"? because your grasp of historical knowledge is definately all "Fantasy Island"!

 

[spartacus53]

Well, it's time to put an end to all the bickering, so I settle this war issue

Whether or not invasion was, or was not possible, all countries that now want a piece of the USA, do not need to wage wr against us.

They just keep buying a piece of us

The good thing is that if relationships ever sour, I'd love to see them try and remove said property. They won't have a fleet large enough to carry the land mass

 

[bill from lachine]

Spart,

Well said sir......plus that they'd have to fight against all the US citizens with they're well laden weapons and ammo stash....
an impossible task to said the least.....

Regards + HH

Bill