“That doesn’t mean that private militias should have tanks and missile launchers...”
Why not? In the defense of Charleston Harbor in June, 1776, Col. Moultrie loaned his cannons to the South Carolina militia. He had the cannons stored in his barn. Those cannons defeated and turned back the British warships that tried to invade Sullivan Island.
Stupid liberals don’t know history.
I don’t know many who know how to operate a tank, but I’m sure we could learn. Give us tanks. And mortars. And RPGs.
True that... private militias should have access to anything that they allow their gov’t to have.
Actually, in those days the majority of the biggest arms were owned by civilians. Cannon and warships were primarily owned by shipping companies. Even in England, civvie companies had cannon to defend against pirates and Muslim raiders.