2. The law regarding all adult males to have a firearm and ammunition had nothing to do with federal conscription (which didn't exist at that time - they were very naturally suspicious of a large standing national army). If you read your Founding Fathers, you'll find that the militia was "the whole of the people" - every adult male. Georgia is still divided up into militia districts, which used to be run by justices of the peace (that office has now been replaced by magistrate judges). If some emergency or enemy action occurred, the JPs had the authority to call out the militia, which was basically anybody who could handle a rifle. But it was a strictly local, neighbors-defending-neighbors proposition.
>>> If you read your Founding Fathers, you’ll find that the militia was “the whole of the people” - every adult male.
Well, you know this... and I know this... but the majority of our congressmen and senators DON’T know this.
That’s our problem.