Here's a news item from the editor of The Tribune, a weekly published in North Carolina.
The World's Largest Army. American Hunters?
The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That's great. There were over 600,000 hunters. 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 help keep the deer menace at bay. 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. America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of troops 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!
The World's Largest Army. American Hunters?
The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That's great. There were over 600,000 hunters. 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 help keep the deer menace at bay. 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. America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of troops 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!
5 comments:
And 420,000 in Ohio.
Need an ample stock of bullets, though.
Pershing in 1917; but he was forestalled by Sam Hughes in 1914.
Cheers
and those are just the hunters.....
Molon Labe, bitches.
And that is why volunteer marksmen societies thrived in Britain in the 19th Century. To provide a ready source of trained marksmen for emergency service in the event of invasion...
Of course in the 21st Century, Britain can provide World Beating Health & Safety Officers and Diversity Co-ordinators. Any potential invader would die laughing (assuming they get past HM Customs & Excise).
TTFN :)
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