They need to consider the following. I don’t know how accurate it is but it is sizeable:
Don’t know if it is true or not but could be.
subject: True story
True story and most people will never know it.
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 Mississippi River .
So, why did they not invade?
After the war, the remaining Japanese generals and admirals were asked that question.
Their answer....
They know 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 ..
Allow me to restate that number.
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.
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.
That’s why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed.
Food for thought when next we consider gun control.
And there are plenty of gun owners who aren’t even hunters, no idea how many. And gun and ammunition sales have skyrocketed since zero got elected.
You’ve discovered one of my pet observations.
There are about 18,000,000 deer hunters now in the USA. Each has precision long-range arms, cammo, comms, gear, transport, etc. and participate in annual live-fire live-target training.
While it’s a nice story, it’s not true. Japan did not have the sealift capacity or troops avalable to ever threaten Hawaii or the West Coast with more than an air raid.
The bulk of Japan’s Army was tied up in China, the few transports they had were moving troops to Malaya.
Japan got incredibly lucky in the first six months of the war. A little bit better performance by even one allied force in early 1942 would have put them in a world of hurt.