By the numbers: sleeping giant ... Army.(Game hunters of America)

In WWII, Japan's highest-ranking naval officer, Isoroku Yamamoto (he of the "sleeping giant" quote), said, regarding the possibility of invading American soil: "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."

To whit, fresh from the Internet (where everything you read is true), this little viral gem: "America's Hunters--The World's Largest Army: The state of Wisconsin has over 716,000 (mostly deer) hunters annually. That's more men under arms than Iran's army; more than France and Germany combined--deployed to the woods of a single American state. And that pales in comparison to the 927,655 in the woods of Pennsylvania or Michigan's 795,535 hunters. Throw in a quarter million deer hunters in West Virginia, and the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world ... not including Texas (1 million) and the western states! As long as the American Hunter retains his right to bear arms, America will forever be safe from foreign invasion. Hunting: It's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security." Nearly half of all U.S. households have guns, hunting or not. Now, just imagine if we could get every single hunter to own either a .308 or .223 so we could all use the same ammo in a pinch.--SK