kkalsch
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- Aug 3, 2010
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- 2016 Sea Hunt Gamefish 27
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Here's an interesting side bar. After the Japanese decimated our
fleet in Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941, they could have sent their troop
ships and carriers directly to California to finish what they started.
The prediction from our Chief of Staff was we would not be able to
stop a massive invasion until they reached the River. Remember, we
had a 2 million man army and war ships....all fighting the Germans.
So, why did they not invade?
After the war, the remaining Japanese generals and admirals were
asked that question. Their answer....they knew that almost every
home had guns and the Americans knew how to use them.
The world's largest army... America's hunters!
I had never thought about this....
A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of
states and arrived at a striking conclusion:
There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin.
Over the last several months, Wisconsin's hunters became the eighth
largest army in the world.
More men under arms than in Iran.
More than in France and Germany combined.
These men deployed to the woods of a single American state to hunt
with firearms, and no one was killed.
That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods
of Pennsylvania and Michigan's 700,000 hunters, all of whom have now
returned home safely.
Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally
establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone
would comprise the largest army in the world. The 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.