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 8th largest army in the world. (That's more men under arms than in Iran, more than France & Germany combined.)
These men, 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's and Michigan's 700,000 hunters, ALL OF WHOM HAVE 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 and millions more.
_____ The point? ____
America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower! Hunting ... it's not just a way of life, a way to fill the freezer. It's also a matter of national security.
That's why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed. Food for thought, when next we consider gun control. Overall it's true, so if we disregard some assumptions that hunters don't possess the same skills as soldiers, the question would still remain...
What army of 2 million would want to face 30 million, 40 million, or 50 million armed citizens???
For the sake of our freedom, don't ever allow gun control or confiscation of guns. (If you agree, as I do, pass it on, I feel good that I have an army of millions who would protect our land, and I sure don't want the government taking control of the possession of firearms.)
* AMERICA! Designed by geniuses - now run by the idiots in Congress. Armed legal citizens are not the problem.
Excellent post.
You should put that on your homepage.
Hmm... maybe a new tagline.
Outstanding post
They want everyone disarmed so they can try to intimidate the population at large the way they do the GOP - in the latter they want people to be afraid to run as conservatives because of the smears and the vandalism and now litigation. In the former, they want every individual to think, “What’s the use of the 2nd amendment? What’s the use of a handgun against an army or even the cops?” They don’t want the foremost thought in our heads to be “there are 600,000 deer hunters in one state alone... and we can reach out to most of them through the NRA, gun clubs and the local bar and grill like old friends...”
Or that in one day in a suburb of St Louis successful hunters brought in 495 deer to be processed at just one small processor.... 495 of some of the best-camouflaged, most alert and elusive critters in the local woods picked off in one day, most in just a few hours from opening day.
They really should be careful what they wish for.
You missed TX. Not sure on current numbers but 2008 had just over 1.1MM resident hunting licenses sold.