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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Richer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
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>
> This really says it all when discussing gun control!
>
>
> In 1960, Robert Menard was a Commander aboard the USS Constellation
> when he was part of a meeting between United States Navy personnel and
> their counterparts in the Japanese Defense Forces.
>
> Fifteen years had passed since VJ day, most of those at the meeting
> were WWII veterans, and men who had fought each other to the death
> at sea were now comrades in battle who could confide in one another.
>
> Someone at the table asked a Japanese admiral why, with the Pacific
> Fleet devastated at Pearl Harbor and the mainland US forces in what Japan
> had to know was a pathetic state of unreadiness, Japan had not simply
> invaded the West Coast.
>
> Commander Menard would never forget the crafty look on the Japanese
> commander's face as he frankly answered the question.
>
> "You are right", he told the Americans. "We did indeed know much
> about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your
> country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state
> championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not
>fools to
> set foot in such quicksand."
>
Any chance of a full citation for the source of this story? Without
proper documentation it is useless as intellectual ammunition against
the victim disarmers.
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