Received from Peggy and posted by Jack
This article raises an Interesting point (I can’t vouch for the numbers, but I can sure understand the message)
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. That’s more men under arms than in Iran. More than France and 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 and Michigan’s 700,000 hunters, all of whom have now 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 more. What’s the point here, you may ask?
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.
What army of 2 million would want to face 30, 40, 50 million armed citizens?
“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”
This quote is attributed to IJN Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. I am not aware of a definitive source for the attribution, but the point is well taken. The following is documented:
In 1960, Robert Menard was a commander aboard the USS Constellation when he was part of a meeting between United States Navy personnel and their counterparts in the Japanese Defense Forces.
Fifteen years had passed since VJ Day, most of those at the meeting were WWII veterans, and men who had fought each other to the death at sea were now comrades in battle who could confide in each other.
Someone at the table asked a Japanese admiral why, with the Pacific Fleet devastated at Pearl Harbor and the mainland U.S. forces in what Japan had to know was a pathetic state of unreadiness, Japan had not simply invaded the West Coast.
Commander Menard would never forget the crafty look on the Japanese commander’s face as he frankly answered the question.
‘You are right,’ he told the Americans. ‘We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand.’
Indeed.
RHT447–NRA High Power Rifle Master.
RHT…thanks, I love this kind of commentary, very intelligent, on point and well said. We can learn so much from history.
Aren’t statistic’s interesting?
The number of physicians in the U.S. Is 700,000. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians Per year are 120,000. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171
These statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept. Of Health and Human Services.
Now think about this:
Guns
The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000, yes million. The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups is 1,500. The number of accidental deaths Per gun owner Is .0000188
Statistics courtesy of FBI
So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
Here are some additional benefits of our gun culture, specifically formal competition in marksmanship. It teaches self discipline, self confidence, manners, and above all, safety. It doesnt care about race, gender, stature, or color. The only requirements to excel are a keen eye, a steady hand, and a steely nerve under pressure. Whats not to like?
Kinda like this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exsxl-5JLeA&
And yes, she did it again. Five in a row…
http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-blogs/shooting/rhode-makes-olympic-history-with-gold-medal.html
NBC? ABC? Fox? CNN? Hellooo….? (crickets chirping).