World's Largest Army

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I don't know who the blogger was but thought the info was cool.


The world's largest army? America 's hunters!!
I don't spend my fall weekends tramping around the woods in pursuit of a buck, but a lot of my friends and neighbors do.

This blogger adds up all the hunters in just a handful of states, and comes to a striking conclusion: The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That's great. There were over 600,000 hunters.

Allow me to restate that number. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world - more men under arms than Iran ; more than France and Germany combined - deployed to the woods of a single American state to help keep the deer menace at bay.

But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan 's 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia , and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.

His point? America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower.

Hunting -- it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security.

 

[DrMike]

Interesting concept, Mike. Thanks for posting. So long as the ATF or politicians keep their hands off America's guns, all will be well.

 

[kendog]

Your neighbors to the north seem to be on the bubble, and have been for quite a few years on if we will continue to have that freedom or not.

 

[Elkman]

And I thought I was out of the army in 1969, very cool info we need to get that in the national press. One of the values of the citizen militia. Probably not very effective against a modern army but significant numbers can make a difference. :grin: :grin:

 

[JD338]

Exactly the reason why Japan chose to invade Pearl Harbor instead of the US mainland.

JD338

 

[DrMike]

Exactly the reason why Japan chose to invade Pearl Harbor instead of the US mainland.

Exactly!

 

[cloverleaf]

And the reason why "terrorists" make bombs and run away like the cowards and sickos they are. They know there success rate would be nill tryin to kill us infadels in a straight up shoot out. CL

 

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While everybody is at the library take time to also look at the underlying philosophical reasons for the way things are as they are today. We live in a secular, humanistic, existential, pragmatic, naturalistic and postmodern world that is heading right for nihilism. Now you put this ignorance (all of the above are actually in conclusion anti philosophical) and mix the ignorance of man in his struggle to identify what is true with political power, money, and greed you get the bad side of both capitalism and socialism sticking up their ugly heads and now everybody is confused to the point that they believe there is no such thing as truth, which is also a lie and the stepchild of our ignorance. No wonder things are as they are in a world up side down. When man is so self centered as to leave God out of the picture, he will bare the consequences of his own self induced ignorance and the 21st Century is the child of the 20th Century and the child is a mean, self serving destructive kid and he is just now starting to grow up, and if you think the 20th Century (more people killed in the 20th century than in all recorded centuries) was a bad one get ready, because we haven't seen anything yet.

 

[kendog]

Yeah, what he said. :?

 

[cloverleaf]

OK I was gonna over simplify things and not go there, but the mans right. cl

 

[Oldtrader3]

Now that you mention it, Toyo actually said that, during the Second World War. I heard on the Milatary Channel that Tojo actually said that invading the American Mainland would be suicide for the Japanese army because "there would be an American rifleman behind every blade of grass".

 

[Polaris]

Wolverines!!!! As far as american rifleman not being effective against a modern army, in a staight up firefight definately not. In an asymetrical guerilla type situation, I think any modern army would fear to tread on american soil outside of small secure enclaves. Look what happened to the Russians when they invaded Finland (whose unofficial national sports were cross country skiing and target shooting). Would make Iraq and Afghanistan look like a sunday picnic. As far as WWII, the Nazis were terrified of the "Bloody Bucket" regiment who had as their emblem the Keystone as in Keystone state. Bet a lot of those boys leared to shoot in the PA deer woods. Throughout our history... Davy Crocket, Daniel Boone, Carlos Hathcock, Alvin York and many others whos names cannot be named or have served quietly and effectively but are lost to history learned their fieldcraft hunting for food or sport. We have a unique heritage in this country and it is up to us to preserve and practice it. The rifle will be an integral part of national security as long as boots are needed on the ground.