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Letter: Put all gun owners in a well-regulated militia
The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 10/05/2015 | Robert Hammer

Posted on 10/05/2015 5:39:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Here's a completely constitutional gun-control measure Congress should consider: Establish a robust national militia, mandating that every gun owner become a member. Failure to register with the militia should result in serious jail time.

In the obvious interest of knowing the quantity and quality of arms available to the militia's purposes, all members should be required to inventory all of their personal arms. Failure to do so should also warrant significant jail time.

(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...


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KEYWORDS: banglist; constitution; gunrigts; militia; negativerights; positiverights
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To: SampleMan

And many did not want a standing army.

And if there is no standing army (wanted), then the militia are the people, even those who selfishly allow others to take on the risk of defense of the people and the responsibility of gun ownership.

Leftists - having their cake and eating it again.


41 posted on 10/05/2015 6:02:35 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And “regulated” in the day meant TRAINED not controlled.


42 posted on 10/05/2015 6:05:51 AM PDT by CPOSharky (I was born with nothing, and I still have most of it.)
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To: SkyDancer

I think we are considered “unorganized militia” unless we’re in the guard.


43 posted on 10/05/2015 6:07:06 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So the gang-banger in da hood is gonna show up at the courthouse with his Mac-10 to sign up for the militia?


44 posted on 10/05/2015 6:07:35 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here’s a better idea. Since almost all of these “mass” shooters are liberals, I say round up all the liberals and put them in concentration camps for public safety.


45 posted on 10/05/2015 6:12:03 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: strings6459

Well-regulated in the 18th Century meant well-trained.


46 posted on 10/05/2015 6:12:50 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: DBrow

When we march on the capitol can we bring tar and feathers?


47 posted on 10/05/2015 6:14:12 AM PDT by certrtwngnut
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To: piasa

An appropriate song by a good friend Tommy Conner’s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeONPI2YaPc


48 posted on 10/05/2015 6:14:58 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This gun grabber could well end up with a “people’s army” that wasn’t to his liking.

Seriously though, this is just more leftist wacko thinking. If you can call it thinking. Not any chance people would allow this.


49 posted on 10/05/2015 6:16:51 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: Reno89519

No it’s not. I forget what FReeper I got this from, but it lives on my FR profile page:

The term “regulated” applied to clocks means “accurate in keeping time”. It made sense, particularly in 18th Century armies, to have to pay a lot of attention to how well soldiers could operate in massed formations. Soldiers had to be drilled to load, aim, and fire as one unit. You do NOT want the rifle next to you to be firing (and emitting a shower of sparks) while you are pouring gunpowder into your musket. Everybody had to do every step together with no screwups.

And in any case, it’s a prefatory clause that still doesn’t change the fundamental meaning of “the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”


50 posted on 10/05/2015 6:18:30 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here’s an alternative: the letter writer can spend ten minutes learning what the phrase “a well regulated militia” meant when it was written.

Then the letter writer can pound sand!


51 posted on 10/05/2015 6:19:08 AM PDT by MortMan (The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Yes it did. See my previous, for a key reason why it was important.


52 posted on 10/05/2015 6:19:14 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Dusty Road

So, we’re out then. Well, we’ll just have to form our own then. The word Amazon’s come to mind.


53 posted on 10/05/2015 6:22:13 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
...all members should be required to inventory all of their personal arms.

Oh, my goodness...I would, but you know, that boating accident and all that...

You guys wouldn't have a few to loan me, would you?

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Take your damned gun control, in ANY form, and stick it up your collective liberal asses.

Period.

54 posted on 10/05/2015 6:24:18 AM PDT by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obergfeld = Settled Law despite the lack of clear constitutional language

Heller = Activism, Open Question, Unconstitutional over reach despite clear constitutional language and intent

Pick a hole libs.


55 posted on 10/05/2015 6:26:34 AM PDT by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

End objective is confiscation, period.

Worked for the Soviets, the Nazis, and the Chicoms.


56 posted on 10/05/2015 6:30:35 AM PDT by wrench
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To: PLMerite

I am a Militia of one. I regulate myself.

“Like” button click.


57 posted on 10/05/2015 6:30:45 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: MortMan

Not necessarily in that order.


58 posted on 10/05/2015 6:32:16 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: SkyDancer

Speaking of women and the militia... Mary Patton, gunpowder maker... interesting history here:

https://washingtoncountyregiment.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/trust-the-lord-but-keep-your-powder-dry-michael-hydersr-powder-maker/


59 posted on 10/05/2015 6:32:54 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ops33

“I don’t believe the Second Amendment was added in order to force me to be a member of the Militia but rather that I could be a member of the Militia.”

Well, I hate to break the news to you, but you happen to be dead wrong about that. It just so happens if you happen to be an able bodied male, a U.S. citizen or alien intending to naturalize as a U.S. citizen, and you are at least 17 years of age and less than 45 years of age, you are or were before age 45 a member of the United States reserve militia in accordance with Title 10 U.S. Code, unless you are a former regular component veterans of the armed forces who have reached the age of 64 (32 USC 313). Volunteering is unnecessary, only the ability to draw a breath, walk, talk, and so forth are required to qualify you as a member of the U.S. militia. Better yet, each state also has made most of you males a member of the state militia as well. The State of Washington for example says:

The militia of the state of Washington shall consist of all able bodied citizens of the United States and all other able bodied persons who have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, residing within this state, who shall be more than eighteen years of age, and shall include all persons who are members of the national guard and the state guard, and said militia shall be divided into two classes, the organized militia and the unorganized militia.

So, not even being 45 years of age and older gets you out of their state militia.

Welcome to the militia, soldier!


60 posted on 10/05/2015 6:36:54 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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