Watched "The Pianist" last night

[BMW Racer]

Very good film that should be shown in every high school in America.

I don't want to ruin it for anyone who has not seen it but I couldn't help but think, during the last 2/3rds of the movie, that the Second Amendment is the most important amendment. Without it, the others are just words.

I cannot imagine not being able to defend myself and my family.

If in 1939, the people of Poland had personal firearms....

I don't know if the quote below is true, but it makes sense.

"I would never invade the United States. There is a gun behind every blade of grass."--Isoruko Yamamoto

[walnutred]

Many of the Jewish people in Poland did have firearms in the late 1930. Which is why it took the Nazis months to round them up rather than days like it did in Germany.

[george minze]

Yamamoto said something to that effect. His assessment of invading the US had a line in it that ran close to that. He also commented about the wide open spaces of the Mid West and West. He further stated that Americans by nature would never be subjugated by invasion. His most quoted remarks were after Pearl Harbor this is not a quote....I believe that all we have accomplished is to awake a sleeping giant and fill him with a resolve????. Yamamoto tough from the warrior class in Japan had spent time in the US and it was no secrete that he admired the American spirit. His assessment was that the Americans had the potential industrial might that could not be negated. Wonder what he would say now??

[BMW Racer]

Originally Posted by walnutred

Many of the Jewish people in Poland did have firearms in the late 1930. Which is why it took the Nazis months to round them up rather than days like it did in Germany.

Interesting.

And if anyone has seen the movie, the "fighting-back" scene is awsome. I had the speakers turned-up and it was very real.

[Spotteddog]

George Santayana quotes

[Hoplophile]

Originally Posted by george minze

His (Yamamoto's) assessment was that the Americans had the potential industrial might that could not be negated. Wonder what he would say now??

A colleague of mine graduated from the Japanese Staff College circa 1989. The graduation address was given by a Japanese Major General (JGSDF), who reportedly made the observation that "By 1989 Japan has accomplished every economic goal it had set out for itself at the beginning of WW II."

As for the Second Amendment being a major reason why Japan never invaded the US, nice try but no cigar. Japan didn't remotely have the sealift to conduct a credible invasion of the US mainland, much left the sealift to sustain such an operation. Look at how long it took us to prepare for the D-Day landings, which were just a puddle-jump in comparison to crossing the Pacific with an invasion force.

(JW-Amphibious Warfare School graduate)

[reb1861]

Just seen this thread and I want to coment on this.what you saw at the last part of the movie is the geto upriseing.the jews that were left in the geto stole guns from the germans and took a stand rather than die some were else.A good idea in my mind.The nazis laws took guns from jews from the get go in germany.Poland was a nother mater the jews had rights to guns when the germans invaded and they used them to kill germans when they got a chance.The jews with the guns got shot first,then the rest were sent to the camps.The same thang can hapen here,The guy with the gun shoots them.The guy with out a gun wont.