Gun Control and Isoroku Yamamoto Article

[threeparrots]

Just read the article on gun control (http://www.davidicke.com/content/view/13856/82/) and the Pearl Harbor/Isoroku Yamamoto reference - I was wondering if anyone could verify the claim that the US mainland was not attacked because it was known that most households carried guns.

[threeparrots]

BUMP.

So nobody?

[romas]

Seemed more like Japanese were pretty tight on fuel, over the US embargo etc, their tech wasn't bet back then either, hard to reach US mainland.

Whole thing seemed like orchestrated event at Pearl Harbour to execute atom bomb test and demonstrate it to the whole world, streghten the fear of upcoming Cold War and keep poaring public money into shady military programmes etc.

[threeparrots]

So you don't agree with the armed Americans theory?

[cheeney1]

So you don't agree with the armed Americans theory?

It is Quite a huge possibility, Especially in Texas, and Local militia around The State, The You've Got the National Guard as well

[threeparrots]

Anyone??

[graflok]

I was wondering if anyone could verify the claim that the US mainland was not attacked because it was known that most households carried guns.

I think it had more to do with the logistics of mounting an attack from Japan on
US mainland soil. But, I'm sure the fact that guns were common household items
at that time was a factor too. It's something any military strategist would have
to take into account for any ground-based assault.

[nessa felagund]

actually the mainland was attacked by a Japanese airplane that took off from a submarine off the coast of Oregon

Japanese plane bombs Oregon coast
Oregon again made national headlines only a few months later in two incidents that went down as the first aerial bombing of the United States mainland by a foreign power. Once again the Japanese submarine I-25 was the source of the trouble. On September 9, 1942 Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita catapulted from the I-25 near the coast of southern Oregon aboard a seaplane and headed east toward Mt. Emily. His mission was to drop an incendiary (fire) bomb on the thick forest and cause a massive fire that would shock Americans and divert resources from fighting the war. Once over forested land, Fujita released the bomb, which struck leaving a crater about three feet in diameter and about one foot deep.

Forest officials examine fragments from a bomb dropped by a Japanese airplane in September 1942. (Folder 5, Box 17, Defense Council Records, OSA)

Link to article (http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/ww2/threat/bombs.htm)

It wasn't very successfull or practical for them to attack the continental US geographically speaking, but they tried :D

And you're right about the majority of Texans being armed--still are :D