30 Jul 19
Misattributed
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.", according to source Brooks Jackson in "Misquoting Yamamoto" at Factcheck.org (11 May 2009), which cites source Donald M. Goldstein, sometimes called "the dean of Pearl Harbor historians", writing "I have never seen it in writing. It has been attributed to the Prange files [the files of the late Gordon W. Prange, chief historian on the staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur] but no one had ever seen it or cited it from where they got it."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto
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You can't find a better reason for the Second Amendment than a made-up quote? Yikes.
30 Jul 19
@mister-moggy removed their quoted postWell, that settles it then.
There are flying dudes out there catching bad guys.
30 Jul 19
@mister-moggy removed their quoted postWhen you have rifles vs tanks, the tanks usually win.
Just so you know.
30 Jul 19
@mister-moggy removed their quoted postI'll tell you a story
About Jack a Nory,
And now my story's begun;
I'll tell you another
Of Jack and his brother,
And now my story is done.
30 Jul 19
@mister-moggy removed their quoted postEdward G. Robinson was just following a screenplay. The bad guys always lose.