el.... Seems to me that the Japanese in WWII made the same statement when asked after their success at Pearl Harbor.
Well....I had assumed that the quote attributed to Admiral Yamamoto has entered our lexicon of historical sayings.
Yamamoto lived & studied in America & knew that the freedom to owns guns here was universal, unlike in Japan, where none but police or military could possess weapons of any kind (still true today).
He assumed that the armed citizenry of an invaded country would quickly transform into a guerilla army.
Now...fast forward: the Koran states that only Muslims may possess weapons. This is brutally enforced in Islamic nations. It is thus an affront to Islam & to Muslims for “infidels” to be armed & capable of self defense (one of many reasons Muslims hate Israel so much).
ISIS may be infiltrating jihadis into America. But with the growing proliferation of legally concealed weapons here, Omar & Achmed don’t know which “infidel” is packing or not. And that’s a problem for them.
For that reason I observed that the “rifle behind every blade of grass” in Yamamoto’s imagination is now the “pistol in every infidel’s pocket” that the terrorists have to worry about.
The Fort Hood murderer knew that his victims were disarmed (it was a cop who brought him down). A jihadi in a mall or the town square has to consider that he will get but a few shots off before being turned into a bleeding collander.