Thanks for answering both questions. The one you did answer has a qualifier, too. I am sickened. So much for this message board being populated by limited government embracng, freedom-loving types.
Our freedom loving founders did not find compulsory militia service to be sickening. Freedom has a price, and as part of the social contract, we have to commit to defend the government that defends us. Now “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism ...” You know the rest of the story.