The World's Largest Army

A Wisconsin blogger recently added up the hunting permits sold in his state and arrived at a striking conclusion:

That in the state of Wisconsin alone there were over 600,000 hunters that season. Did you get that? Wisconsin's hunters became the eighth largest army in the world. This is more men under arms than in Iran. More than in France and Germany combined. These 600,000 men went to the woods in a single American state to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.

But that's not the end of it. There were 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? That perhaps America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower. Hunting -- it's not just one of Americas favorite pastimes nor is it just a rite of passage for both father and son. It is a matter of national security.