[bullet]

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.

 

[Beladran]

I'm still waiting for terrorist season to open....

 

[jbpmidas]

I'm still waiting for terrorist season to open....

How much for the Lifetime License?

 

[pinetor]

I was mentioning a rather little known Disney movie "Victory through Air power" circa 1943, when he piped up with tiny bit of trivia. Although Japan was successful in the bombing of Pearl harbor, documents found after the war relate a "great reluctance" to attack the mainland US (even though there were plans). The reason? The unknown capabilty of the average armed US citizen to preclude a succesful occupation.

I had never heard of such.

 

[Guest]

I'm still waiting for terrorist season to open....

It's open year round:

https://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/

Just see your local recruiter for licensing information.

 

[bullet]

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.

 

[Xd357]

Good post Mr. Bullet. ^^^^^^