The largest Standing Army In The World. Maybe Even In History…

[billh58]

https://hardballer.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/the-largest-standing-army-in-the-world-maybe-even-in-history/

This right-wing extremist garbage is repeated on many Gunner sites, so I just grabbed one:

Recently posted on FB by Dan A.:

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 it is literally the case that the hunters of those four 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.
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I love my country
It’s the Government I’m afraid of.
God Bless America"

Wow! Just wow. That is the right-wing gift that just keeps on giving. What they don't take into consideration, however, is that only a handful of these "hunters" would respond to a call-to-arms by a radical psychopath, and that our military would have already taken out any spooky invaders before they could get their pathetic asses out of the bar.

[Dawson Leery]

1. Many liberals in rural areas hunt too (certain cultural attributes cross party lines).

These jackals will be surprised just how few of their fellow hunters (including most conservatives) do not rise up with them.

[flamin lib]

2. What all those guys don't have is command and control.

My SIL , former Marine, says is that with a good radio operator and close air support he is a part of the most awesome and fearsome military ever on the face of the earth. Without the radio operator and all that goes with it he's just another guy in the woods with a gun.

A million guys in the woods milling aimlessly around. Yeah, a real deterrent.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. But they never say who it is that's going to invade us?

Every potential enemy out there would have to mount a sea invasion, which would be easy to spot and eliminate before these guys knew what was going on.

BTW, my town has been struggling with deer for years, but we stopped the "anyone with a hunting license" solution a while back when one of the stalwarts blew up a farmer's irrigation fuel tank.

Really pissed off the farmer.