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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bearmilleroutdoors.com ...
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If we were willing to shoulder those odds, however, the 90 million rifle owners would win handily.
Key fact: a small unit that knows each other well and has a shared training history can beat a larger group of strangers ANY DAY.
That is part of why The Founders feared standing armies.
How often do hunters train together with division of responsibilities...?
BTW the Yamamoto quote so loved was made up.
The cops have VERY intimate contact with the citizenry on a daily basis, yet what do we see more and more of...?
As long as they are fed the cops and soldiers WILL follow their shocking orders...
When a nation fights a series of long, low-intensity wars, soldiers are expected to act like cops and in time, cops act like soldiers.
The cops and soldiers will have NO PROBLEM shooting at us.
Many of them come fro places where it is very natural for troops to be used in policing roles.
Some might even enjoy it.
That is why the Japanese knew invading the US in WW2 was impossible.
Date of Report: September 13, 1995
Congress clearly did not, and does not, understand how deeply affected ordinary Americans were by their government’s actions at Ruby Ridge and at Waco; this is true for New Yorkers, no less than for Idahoans and Texans. That failure, and the growing feeling that their representatives are not doing just that - namely, representing THEM - has become the source of a great deal of widespread frustration among Americans.
The Operation Lexington-Concord is the first study, ever, of its kind - a nationwide survey and analysis of the attitudes of legal gun-owners in America. Unlike the biased, politically-contaminated studies often presented by groups and organizations which have a firearm-prohibitionist agenda, [that group including a fair number of studies which have appeared in the medical literature], Operation Lexington-Concord is objective, and the result of a wholly grassroots volunteer effort. And, unlike most other polls of any type, the sample size in the present study is far larger.
The importance of the findings of this study are momentous, and two unexpected findings are outstanding among all the rest:
- 51.8% of all respondents cited “government” as their greatest fear in life in America today, and
- 73.7% of all respondents stated they would actively resist governmental confiscation of their firearms.
Copy of the Full Report as presented to Congress in 1995
http://rkba.org/research/olc.21sep95
Vegans excepted, the ONLY difference between a hunter and a non-hunter is the non-hunter pays someone to do his killing for him.
Thanks. Freely pass them around and add some of your own.
The total number of resident permits is at 29,675,420 and about 2 million more for out of State permits. 30 million active hunting permits. Some are duplicates, of course. I get a permit for birds and one for small game. Still that’s millions of people actively hunting. Even if people get 3 permits that’s 10 million active hunters. People that know something about their backyards.
Where were all these hunters at voting time last November?
The British never imported any muskets for the colonists. The colonists imported parts from France, Germany and other countries, and raided British arms rooms. Some Revolutionary firearms can have anywhere from 2 to 5 different serial numbers on fabricated parts from different countries, while others completely fabricated by colonial gunsmiths will have no serial number anywhere.
Maybe in Moosurrie, not in TEXAS..
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Yamamoto had a certain regard for America & did not underestimate our industrial base or determination, unlike Tojo & the other Jap warlords who assumed bushido spirit would conquer all. He did not hate America as they did.
Yamamoto also spent enough time studying in America to learn our language & realized that firearms possession here is a human right, not an aristocratic privilege as in Japan which it remains to this day.
If hunters are a disorganized mass, the first vid of a door kicked in & home invaded by jackbooted Govags that goes viral will quickly galvanize most into willingness to resist, if only on an individual level.
If Govags are unsure if they’ll see their families again at the end of each long day of breaking & arresting, that could change the aura of government invincibility, too.
Man, that was great!
90 % of usn`s here in the mountains already done been Armified already
so we`uns kno how to military it already
did it here waitin for them commies-
These are generalities.
A certain percentage of these hunters vote for Dummycrats and their ideology, support gun control for “assault weapons”, or are as dangerous as drunks fishing.
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