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To: bannie

I like the spirit of your idea. We must be as wary of the encroaching tyranny in DC as we are of wacko terrorists. One problem:

"...follow Switzerland's lead and all have military training..."

Who's going to pay for this government training program? Why can't people learn this in the private sector, the way our Founding Fathers envisioned?


35 posted on 06/19/2004 12:45:30 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (If you enjoy my outlandish rants, welcome to my profile.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Who's going to pay for this government training program? Why can't people learn this in the private sector, the way our Founding Fathers envisioned?

Actually they envisioned the states doing it according to rules and regulations approved by Congress. They modeled the original militia system after that of the Swiss, which was then quite similar to what it is now, save the types of arms used.

From Article I, section 8: Congress shall have the power to

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To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

67 posted on 06/19/2004 9:57:26 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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