Flyboy
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--LMCBoy on Slashdot (who is not, never has been, and never will be me)Yeah, whatever. At the time the second amendment was written, the militias were an *instrument* of the government, not a force to act against it.
We didn't have a standing army at that time, so the citizen militias were necessary for national defense and security. Now that we have a standing all-volunteer army, there is absolutely no need for citizen militias (which is why there aren't any).
Why do some people consider the prospect of armed citizens plunging the nation into anarchy and vigilantism to be compatible with the phrase "well-regulated militia"? Do you honestly believe that the founding fathers encoded violent revolution into the bill of rights?
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