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Federal law, constitutions in every state, and criminal statutes in 29 states outlaw groups that engage in activities reserved for state agencies, including acting as law enforcement, training and drilling together, engaging in crowd control and making shows of force as armed groups at public gatherings.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: SeektoUnderstand
How are armed militias literally instrumental in keeping your country free in this day of age?
During the ratification period for the new Constitution, anti-federalists frequently expressed concern that the new federal government may be strong enough to raise a standing army that would dwarf the power of the state-controlled militias. Standing armies, of course, had long been synonymous with abusive government, and targeted by liberals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Anti-federalists understood the importance of a decentralized and locally-controlled military power as a check on centralized political power.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: SeektoUnderstand
How are armed militias literally instrumental in keeping your country free in this day of age?
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: SeektoUnderstand
How are armed militias literally instrumental in keeping your country free in this day of age?
How are armed militias literally instrumental in keeping your country free in this day of age?
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: SeektoUnderstand
How are armed militias literally instrumental in keeping your country free in this day of age?
How are they not?
originally posted by: Drucifer
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: SeektoUnderstand
How are armed militias literally instrumental in keeping your country free in this day of age?
How are they not?
When was the last time an armed militia did anything in the US?
(Keep in mind, I completely disagree with outlawing militias)
originally posted by: Drucifer
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: SeektoUnderstand
How are armed militias literally instrumental in keeping your country free in this day of age?
How are they not?
When was the last time an armed militia did anything in the US?
(Keep in mind, I completely disagree with outlawing militias)
originally posted by: SeektoUnderstand
a reply to: andy06shake
Ask the UK and half the world
How are armed militias literally instrumental in keeping your country free in this day of age?
Let me know if their hindsight is quite literally 2020