The world's largest army? America's hunters. I don't spend my fall
>> weekends tramping around the woods in pursuit of a buck, but a lot of my
>> friends and neighbors do. This blogger adds up all the hunters in just a
>> handful of states, and comes to a striking conclusion: 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
>> another 300,000 or so from New York , and it is literally the case that the
>> hunters of those five states alone would comprise the largest army in the
>> world. His 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.
>>
>> I love my country
>> It's the Government I'm afraid of.
>> God Bless America
>> weekends tramping around the woods in pursuit of a buck, but a lot of my
>> friends and neighbors do. This blogger adds up all the hunters in just a
>> handful of states, and comes to a striking conclusion: 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
>> another 300,000 or so from New York , and it is literally the case that the
>> hunters of those five states alone would comprise the largest army in the
>> world. His 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.
>>
>> I love my country
>> It's the Government I'm afraid of.
>> God Bless America