So much stupid, it hurts.
The historical revisionism on this thread is mind boggling. America BAD, Japan innocent. Cowardly America. Jewish conspiracies. JEZUZ! I would have thought at least gun owners would know better.
I am something of a Japanophile. I speak some Japanese and I am very familiar with the culture. It's an interesting place to visit, but you will never want to live there. Beneath a superficial veil of nuttiness, it's a rigid uptight honour bound sacrifice filled society. The Japanese of that time, and to a lesser extent now but still it's an issue, are a supremacist xenophobic culture that looks upon non-Japanese as inferior. They bayonetted civilians and children and wounded soldiers because they were inferior subhuman races in their eyes, whether asian or white. Japan had no intention of a real surrender, as noted above, and were preparing land based defense for the islands that would have cost hundreds of thousands of lives, American as well as Japanese. The bomb saved lives, and showed a lesson to the world that we have learned even to the present time, though I wonder about where we are now with rogue nations getting the bomb and having crazy enough leaders to threat to use them.
That's OK... the western world that you hate so much won't be around much longer. It's committing suicide, thanks to people like you, and soon no one will be left to fight for it, for the freedoms American and Canadian blood bought. You can look forward to a life like you would have had under Germany or under the Soviet Union, this time under China or an EU-like world government that will tell you how to live your life.
And for what it's worth, none of those controlling governments that will replace our relatively free and relatively civil society, bought with the blood of our soldiers, allow civilian gun ownership.
