Sent to me by Chuck Woody - TNX
In WWII, Japan's highest ranking naval officer was Isoruku Yamamoto.
Although he was Japanese, and his loyalties were unquestionably with
The Empire, he studied for many years in America, graduating from
Harvard University. There is an oft-repeated (and sometimes disputed)
quote attributed to him regarding the possibility of any nation taking a
war to American soil:
"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There
would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
Here is why he was correct:
America's Hunters. The World's Largest Army.
The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting
season without someone getting killed. That's great, considering there
were over 600,000 hunters that got permits this year.
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 keep the
deer population under control.
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.
And that is just FOUR states.
The total population of registered hunters in America
today ranges from 23 million to 43.7 million individuals. (Based on
annual data provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.)
As long as the American Hunter retains his right to Bear
Arms, America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of troops.
Hunting - it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's
a matter of national security.