"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed-where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."
So, of course the Constitutional Militia as defined by US Code is important for national security/defense from an outside aggressors, but its main purpose is to assure that the citizens have the means to overthrow the government should it become tyrannical. In this, the armed citizenry should be a reminder to corrupt and ambitious politicians that they should "keep in line", i.e., stay within Constitutional bounds. Today's so-called 'liberal' is really nothing more than a shill for the commie takeover of the Republic; the goal is to destroy the Constitution. Before that can be accomplished, the citzenry will have to be disarmed. Hence, the near irrational hysteria about "gun control". Finally, you are trying to use a logical argument with people whose minds are already made up and who, indeed, rely on illogic and irrational fear to whip the "sheep" into a frenzy.
Thanks for the compliment man. I appreciate your well informed view. Our country was born of revolution, and it continued to show in the founding fathers hatred of tyranny and oppression at all levels. I can appreciate your well formed argument.
"The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which ... historically has proven to be always possible."