[ctdonath2]

Yup. He trusts that if need arises, the gov't will have time & resources to equip & train those called up ... and if there isn't, well gee whiz that's what those in power decided, and it would have been a useless rabble anyway.

Three times last year a large group tried to shut down Atlanta. Had they truly succeeded, the result would have been ugly & dangerous - and probably would have required calling in the NG per an "insurrection". Between shutdown and adequate NG involvement (IIRC, majority is overseas), the security of this free state would have rested squarely on the "unorganized militia" acting immediately with what they have, know and planned; may not be ideal (thanks to gov't negligence & suppression), but work with what ya got - and best to maximize before need arise.

I don't buy Constitutional interpretations that subject "we the people" - me in particular - to vulnerability per the whims of the powerful. The Founding Fathers had just fought a long war to overthrow such views implemented; to think they promply enacted a system restoring such views is plain bunk.

[tpaine]

"-- I don't buy Constitutional interpretations that subject "we the people" - me in particular - to vulnerability per the whims of the powerful.
The Founding Fathers had just fought a long war to overthrow such views implemented; to think they promply enacted a system restoring such views is plain bunk. --"


Yep. -- Some of those Founders thought they could enact a system that gave them, - the [free, white & 21] 'majority' in a State the power to control everyone else.

-- When it became apparent to them that they had ratified a Constitution that prevented 'majority rule', they rebelled.
-- After the war they then ignored the 14th Amendment, and to this day their prodigy, now known as Statist's,/States Rightist's,/Communitarians,/Democrats -,whatever; -- are still singing that same old majority rules song.

Weird people. Apparently belonging to the 'group' is more important to them than individual liberty.

[labette]

"The Founding Fathers had just fought a long war to overthrow such views implemented; to think they promptly enacted a system restoring such views is plain bunk."

Amen.