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To: Hazcat
"One of the things that they believed was that the right of states to organize militias, and therefore individuals to be armed, was necessary to protect the liberty of those states against the federal government," Wittes said. "This is something we don't really believe as a society anymore."

Literally he is correct, but the point is irrelevant. I don't think many people think that state governments are going to organize militias as a bulwark against the Federal government. Even in the Civil War the Confederate States needed a federal army to fight the Union. But the 2nd Amendment doesn't address that anyway. When it talks about a militia being vital to a free state, it means an unorganized militia of all citizens, not organized state militias. And the idea that armed citizens are a counter to a potential dictatorial government is fortunately something that at least a significant portion of Americans still believe.

115 posted on 06/12/2007 9:20:35 AM PDT by Hugin (Mecca delenda est.)
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To: Hugin
Even in the Civil War the Confederate States needed a federal army to fight the Union.

Beg do differ here... The US Civil War of 1861-1865 was fought largely by units which were privately raised at a state level. This was, perhaps the last war in our history where regiments levied by individual states were a prominent factor...

the infowarrior

156 posted on 06/12/2007 4:32:44 PM PDT by infowarrior
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