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The world's largest army? America's hunters
Redding.com ^ | December 6, 2010

Posted on 12/06/2010 5:09:18 PM PST by SJackson

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To: Uncle Miltie

“I have often said that North Dakota could take France”

Actually, can’t everywhere pretty much take France?


41 posted on 12/06/2010 6:47:05 PM PST by momtothree
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To: cripplecreek
Terrain needs to be taken into account as well. Those of us who live where we were raised are very familiar with it.

I know EXACTLY what you are saying:

Try digging somebody outta here sometime...

42 posted on 12/06/2010 6:50:24 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit)
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To: cripplecreek

Nice pic.

I can envision myself there with a hammock, a fishing rod and a cooler, awaiting “rescue”.


43 posted on 12/06/2010 6:55:50 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: loreldan; SJackson

Not so.

During WW2 the Germans took over Yugoslavia. Josip Broz, also known as Tito, was the most powerful resistance leader. He was interviewed early in the war, and asked the following question:

“How can your men, armed largely with old rifles, possibly hope to defeat the Wehrmacht and its new Panzers?”

Tito’s answer displayed both his tactical and strategic genius:

“When the Germans come out of their new tanks to take a piss, my men will shoot them with their old rifles.”

It is all about choosing the time and place of battle and, for an inferior force, avoiding the enemy’s strength. We have and are actively using the same weapons you speak of right NOW, yet the ill-educated, cave-dwelling, worshippers of a murderous pedophile are still fighting us-and it is WE who will leave soon, as did the Russians and British before us. Your “analysis” takes no account of strategy, tactics or willpower, a mistake made by many.


44 posted on 12/06/2010 7:03:56 PM PST by Ancesthntr (Tyrant: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
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To: loreldan
Had the citizens of Europe been well-armed in 1939, Hitler's Blitzkrieg would have been stopped in its tracks in Poland. Hitler's conquests were made possible only because the citizens of Europe were for the most part unarmed.

Here in America, the high-crime areas are the areas that have the most onerous gun control laws. This is because criminals feel secure operating in an environment where law-abiding citizens are unarmed.

This article has much merit. Millions of well-armed Americans bode well for our security. Let's hope the gun-grabbers never achieve their goals.

45 posted on 12/06/2010 7:36:43 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 223 days away from outliving Wendy O Williams (Plasmatics))
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To: loreldan

Losses are expected in all battles. Just how many missiles do you think exist and how long would it be before the World’s Largest Army tyook control of the assembly plant?


46 posted on 12/06/2010 8:02:09 PM PST by B4Ranch (Do NOT remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
sinsofsolarempirefan wrote: If the ability of a nation to drop buckets full of sunshine anywhere in the world doesn’t deter a foreign invader, I seriously doubt a few hundred thousand hunters with old-fashioned guns would....

Ol' fashioned ???

47 posted on 12/06/2010 8:03:33 PM PST by Spitzensparkin1 (Arrest and deport all illegal aliens. Illegal is not a race - it is a crime. WhooRaah! Arizona!)
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To: MountainDad

muslums


48 posted on 12/06/2010 8:07:42 PM PST by B4Ranch (Do NOT remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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To: cripplecreek

if you need verification, ask my brother...


49 posted on 12/06/2010 8:20:55 PM PST by stefanbatory (Insert witty tagline here)
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To: wtc911

They can’t be everywhere at once and while they’re getting a bite, the rest of us will get a mouthful.


50 posted on 12/06/2010 9:02:14 PM PST by bog trotter
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To: Spitzensparkin1

A few years back while Henry Waxman was ranting about .50 cal rifles, he estimated that there was one in every county in Michigan. (that’s 83)

I had to laugh when he said it because I knew of at least 4 people in my county who owned one.


51 posted on 12/07/2010 6:19:37 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Ramius

“And such was Yamamoto’s assessment of the basic impossibility of any assault on the American west coast.”

Stalin asked the KGB (1951)how Russia would control the US if we went to war. The report said “You can’t control the US. Too many rifles”.

Armies are beaten by attacking their logistics and retricting their ability to move and destroying their ability to communicate, not necessarily head on assaults.

The situation here is a bit different from most other countries for the following reasons:

Ownership of arms and use of them is widespread. Americans are terrific shooters.

Knowledge of military tactics is widepsread.

Other knowledge, such as chemical and explosive knowledge is widespread because many of our populace use the knowledge frequently (farmers and ranchers, coal industry). Also because we publish it in our newspapers upon occasion.

Small machine shops, whether commercial or hobby type operations in the garage are very common.

I don’t see any power on the horizon that will be capable of taking us down in the foreseeable future. Some of the crazies in the world see it differently, but they hesitate to take us on.

“Armies beat armies, insurgents beat politicians”. Just look at our own history in Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan. The Demos are constantly trying to surrender to someone, anyone, and have over the years, created a really serious problem as some of the nut bags in the world have figured out that many of our politicians are pansies.


52 posted on 12/07/2010 9:28:39 AM PST by texmexis best (`)
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To: tacticalogic
5 hunter per sq. mile

1 sq mile = 27,878,400 sq ft

Blast area of 1 missile (500 ft radius) = 785,398 sq ft (assuming circular blast area)

# missiles per sq mile = 27,878,400 sq. ft / 785,398 sq ft = 35.49 ~ 36 missiles (I would have rounded down to 35 but that leaves approx. 8.6 acres untouched by missiles and a hunter could be on that land)

1,000,000 hunters based on 5 hunters per sq. mile takes up 200,000 sq. miles. (Assuming contiguous area)

Therefore to cover 200,000 sq. miles with 36 missiles per sq. mile would take 7,200,000 missiles (7.2 million)

I can't help it. I was curious. I have the “knack” and I'm an engineer. I think we will be able to defend our country.

:-)

53 posted on 12/07/2010 10:39:13 AM PST by johngalt42 (Sic Semper Tyrannis!)
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To: Uncle Miltie
I have often said that North Dakota could take France.

Undoubtedly - you are correct.

54 posted on 12/07/2010 11:55:41 AM PST by Last Dakotan (Hunting - the ultimate in organic grocery shopping.)
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To: loreldan

The Warsaw Uprising in 1943 was begun with 11 guns the Jews managed to find/steal. They used those to get others. It took the Germans a month to wipe them out. With 11,000 guns or more, they could have held out longer. Winning was out of the question in that instance. However, not every struggle between unequal opponents comes out that way....Vietnam, Afghanistan, and other insurgencies are proof that superior technology does not automatically confer victory.


55 posted on 12/07/2010 7:52:24 PM PST by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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To: SJackson
The Hunters Of Kentucky

Ye gentlemen and ladies fair
Who grace this famous city,
Just listen, if you’ve time to spare,
While I rehearse a ditty;
And for the opportunity
Conceive yourselves quite lucky,
For ‘tis not often that you see
A hunter from Kentucky.

REFRAIN:

Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky!
Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky!
We are a hardy, free-born race,
Each man to fear a stranger;
Whate’er the game, we join in chase,
Despising toil and danger.
And if a daring foe annoys,
Whate’er his strength and forces,
We’ll show him that Kentucky boys
Are alligator horses.

REFRAIN

I s’pose you’ve read it in the prints,
How Packenham attempted
To make old Hickory Jackson wince,
But soon his scheme repented;
For we, with rifles ready cock’d,
Thought such occasion lucky,
And soon around the gen’ral flock’d,
The hunters of Kentucky.

REFRAIN

You’ve heard, I s’pose, how New-Orleans
Is fam’d for wealth and beauty—
There’s girls of ev’ry hue, it seems,
From snowy white to sooty.
So Packenham he made his brags,
If he in fight was lucky,
He’d have their girls and cotton bags,
In spite of old Kentucky.

REFRAIN

But Jackson he was wide awake,
And was not scar’d at trifles,
For well he knew what aim we take,
With our Kentucky rifles:
So he led us down by Cypress swamp,
The ground was low and mucky;
There stood John Bull in martial pomp,
And here was old Kentucky.

REFRAIN

A bank was rais’d to hide our breasts,
Not that we thought of dying,
But that we always like to rest,
Unless the game is flying.
Behind it stood our little force,
None wished it to be greater,
For ev’ry man was half a horse,
And half an alligator.

REFRAIN

They did not let our patience tire,
Before they show’d their faces;
We did not choose to waste our fire,
So snugly kept our places.
But when so near we saw them wink,
We thought it time to stop ’em,
And ’twould have done you good, I think,
To see Kentuckians drop ’em.

REFRAIN

They found, at last, ’twas vain to fight,
Where lead was all their booty,
And so they wisely took to flight,
And left us all the beauty.
And now, if danger e’er annoys,
Remember what our trade is;
Just send for us Kentucky boys,
And we’ll protect ye, ladies.

REFRAIN[2]

56 posted on 12/07/2010 8:02:05 PM PST by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific!)
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To: cripplecreek

“Many of those went home to grab their muzzleloaders.”

lol! So true, so true. Of course, out here it’s Pheasant Season so we grab our shotguns.


57 posted on 12/07/2010 8:19:51 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: loreldan

“One hunter or a million with a 7mm against satellite guided missiles operated from thousands of miles away is not much of a defense.”

So why are we still over there in the sandbox fighting rusted AK-47s? Also, we Americans built those “satellite guided missiles” and those satellites. We can remove them just as well if they are ever turned on us.


58 posted on 12/07/2010 8:22:18 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: cripplecreek

That’s Michigan??? I would have sworn it was a bayou in louisiana.


59 posted on 12/07/2010 8:24:02 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: SJackson

“Nearly 500,000 deer hunters in Missouri” per Missouri Department of Conservation.


60 posted on 12/08/2010 12:47:27 PM PST by TYVets
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