Posted on 11/03/2013 11:47:25 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Thoughts on Hunters, this is an interesting slant on things. The world’s largest army; America’s hunters! I had never thought about this, but 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. Allow me to restate that number: 600,000. Over the last several months, Wisconsin’s hunters became the eighth largest army in the world: more men in arms than in Iran. More than France and Germany combined. These men and women deployed to the woods of a single American state, Wisconsin, 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. And then add in the total number of hunters in the other 46 states. It’s millions more.
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I don’t hunt because unless I am eating it, I’m not killing animals. Also fervently hoping it doesn’t ever have to come to that.
Keep in mind that IF forces in the US ever turned on the citizens, they have families HERE, and they need to put their heads on a pillow each night.
When forces go overseas, their family is safe thousands of miles away. That would not be the case here.
War is hell; they had better do the calculations before they tread on the citizens.
Yamamoto wasn’t developing drones and mini-drones, placing surveillance cameras at intersections of every main urban road and the interstates, and developing armed robots to deal with those behind the blades of grass.
Technology enables folks to be wiped out before they ever physically see or engage anyone. It would have to happen lightning quick across the entire nation with tens of millions of folks acting together.
But the point remains, without organization, leadership, discipline and a common goal, thinking we are an “army” is fantasy.
this is why so many foreign troops are here - obama’s going to use them, estimated at 400,000 or so. probably stick them in us uniforms and they’ll know limited english, enough to do whatever they have to do.
Yeah they said the same back in the late 1700s.
And what about cross-country truckers? Aren’t they a rolling army? How many cross-country truckers do we have?
Those cameras and drones would be the first casualties.
I won't argue the fact that in the event of a shooting war there would be a HUGE block of the population that could form the core of a resistance movement, or a cadre for a standing army. I just think that it is not related very closely to the great numbers of hunter there are in the country, and anyone how hangs their hopes on the number is not looking at things realistically.
Add to that there a lot more former military than active duty. And a lot of them are armed and remember their training.
What is the expression, “Not as lean, but still a Marine”?
The forces who beat the British at Concord were not disorganized. Every town militia met regularly for drill, and had elected officers. Moreover they were backed by a corps of Minute Men, who were trained to the level of professional soldiers. They had a unified regional command structure and political organization that became the nucleus of the Continental Army.
If you like your game, you will be able to keep your game. Period.
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008
What could possibly go wrong?
See you when the power cuts back on.
All you say makes sense.... So why did all that high tech fire power fail to pacify Afghanistan against less then 50000 AL-quida?
If you like your power, you will be able to keep your power. Period.
If you like your electronic conveniences, you will be able to keep your electronic conveniences. Period.
The Afghans are not disorganized. They have the oldest military organization in the world, clans and tribes. They have been fighting as such for thousands of years. The entire purpose of life for an Afghan tribesman is to be a warrior worthy of his ancestors.
Yep
afghanistan vs america is apples and oranges in too many different ways to count.
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