sudden valley gunner
Regular Member
IMHO, the necessity of a citizen militia has been eliminated now that we have the most powerful standing military in the world, with bases in every state. Now it is just an anachronism. The extremely small percentage of folks that envision forming a militia to take up arms against our democratically chosen govt. would get their asses handed to them by our nations LEOs. I don't even think the military would have to get involved, unless the insurgents had help from a foreign power, as we helped Afganistan against the Russians and France helped us against England. I don't understand the motivation of folks who spend time daydreaming about opening fire on other Americans because of political differences or different interpretations of our laws.
“ In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."
Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural speech.
Seems fitting.
You mean the person who trashed the constitution, put the feds above the states, cared little about individual freedom or slavery, acted like a dictator killing hundreds of thousands and instituting the plague of nationalism? That Lincoln?
Plus you are missing the point of the 2A it wasn't about foreign invasion as much as a check on our own federation.
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