Good email I got about hunters effect globally

[MichiganHunter]

After the Japanese decimated our fleet in Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941,They could have sent their troop ships and carriers directly to California To finish what they started. The prediction from our Chief of Staff was we would not be able to stop a Massive invasion until they reached the Mississippi River . Remember, we had a 2 million man army and war ships…... All fighting the Germans.

So, why did they not invade?

After the war, the remaining Japanese generals and admirals were asked that question. Their answer…... They know that almost every home had guns and the Americans knew how to use them..

The world's largest army.... America 's hunters!

I had never thought about this.... 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.

More men under arms than in Iran .More than in France and Germany combined. These men deployed to the woods of a single American state 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. 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?

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.

.THOUGH IT WAS A GOOD EMAIL

Edited September 7, 2011 by MichiganHunter

[The_Kat]

it is a good email. Just hope that army has that guts to use them if ever there is a need.

[MichiganHunter]

I'll stand if I need to.

[Ultradog]

Nice thoughts but not very accurate historically.

To begin with the US didn't have any troops in Europe untill Operation Torch - the landings in North Africa in November of 1942 - nearly a year after Pearl Harbor.

Secondly the Japanese didn't sink our whole Navy at Pearl. They sank or damaged 8 Battleships, 3 cruisers, a couple of destroyers and a few other smallish ships. Important ships yes but not irreplaceable. In fact of the 4 battleships sunk 2 were raised and returned to service within 2 1/2 years. The other 4 which were damaged to varying degrees were repaired and back in service much sooner.

But lastly, (and most importantly)the logistical requirements for Japan to have invaded just Hawaii was about 5 times greater than they had resources for when combined with their other military comittments. For Japan to have landed and supported an Army on the US mainland and supported them with beans, bullets and and all the other instruments of war would probably have been like 20 times greater than they had the resources for. It really was a physical impossibility for them to do such an invasion. Look at how they could not hold on to the Solomons and Guadalcanal after we landed. And that was at the very far end or OUR logistical train. The Solomons were much closer to them distance wise. It might interesting to fantasize about our fathers and grand fathers hiding amongst the Rocky mountains with their 30-30 Winchesters and taking out Japanese soldiers. But it is just impossible to have ever happened.

The japanese did torpedo a few merchants off our West coast. They did manage to land on some remote islands in the Aluetian chain in Alaska - which were closer to them than to us.

They managed to sew a few mines in the Pacific Northwest and managed to launch one airplane from a submarine in hopes of dropping an incindiary bomb and start some fires in Oregon which failed. Those few puny incidents were about the extent of their ability to project power this far away from their homeland.

Consider these factoids:

The USA had the capacity to produce 41.7% of the world's warmaking potential in WWII

Japan had the ability to produce just 3.5% of the world's warmaking potential in WWII

That is nearly 12 times the difference.

Makes their folly all the more breathtaking doesn't it?

No, Japan could not have conquered even Hawaii. Had the battle of Midway not gone against them and had they landed there they could not have held it for long. Months maybe.

Sorry for such a long post over a simple email but once you get me started, well...

Jerry