Frankly speaking, weren't all the US CVL in Taffy 3 doing that once the cruisers got in range? They've only got their peashooters (1 on each carrier, at that) as their only self-defense weapon. It's the equivalent of using that 9mm handgun to fend off an armored car.
Then, of course, there's White Plains and Choukai...
Most people, even hardcore NRA members don't answer the door with a gun and just start shooting people. Jesus Christ japan, this is what happens when you get your information from yellow journalism.
And yet in Florida it's legal to shoot paper targets in your backyard while facing out over a public waterway, and people have been injured in their homes by their neighbours shooting in their yards.
Also every once in a while some trick or treating kid gets shotgunned.
Frankly speaking, weren't all the US CVL in Taffy 3 doing that once the cruisers got in range? They've only got their peashooters (1 on each carrier, at that) as their only self-defense weapon. It's the equivalent of using that 9mm handgun to fend off an armored car.
Then, of course, there's White Plains and Choukai...