No, the Militias were NEVER a guard against "govornment" tyranny or even government tyranny. Initially they were bodies organized by communities to defend them against Indian attacks. Then they were organized by Colonies' governments to fight in the Revolution or with the British against the French (see the life of George Washington, a colonel in the Virginia militia) or Indians. Then they were organized by State governments. True militias were organized and recognized by Governments. Why don't you study a little history this is not a secret or a mystery?
At one period they were even organized ethnicly. For example, Chicago had large German militias during the late 1800s which armed and drilled. These were generally socialist and alarmed the State government so much they were banned and gun control laws first imposed against them. For fear they would lead a socialist revolution.
In modern times they have disappeared although the state constitution still defines the militia as being made up of all able bodied males. But their military use has disappeared. They were never designed to fight governmental armies except in your fantasies.
No, the Militias were NEVER a guard against "govornment" tyranny or even government tyranny....
They were never designed to fight governmental armies except in your fantasies.
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." -Tench Coxe, Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1989 at col. 1.
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States." -Noah Webster, An Examination into the Leading Principles of the federal Constitution (1787) in Pamphlets to the Constitution of the United States (P. Ford, 1888).
Seems a few others have shared my "fantasies". But, hey, you got me on a typo, big guy.