Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: ctdonath2
"and it would be nice to be able to call on anyone - and I mean anyone - to pitch in on short notice (which they can't if they're not armed)."

I agree, though I think that should be left up to each state. If the state wants their militia members to take their arms home for just such a reason, I have no problem with that.

"Here's a really wild notion: they're really pretty much the same thing!"

Not according to Hamilton in Federalist 29. He thought there was a big difference between "all the militia" and the select militia -- that being the select militia was organized, trained, and disciplined, with officers appointed by the state.

1,018 posted on 11/16/2007 12:07:02 PM PST by robertpaulsen
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1015 | View Replies ]


To: robertpaulsen

Whose arms?
Who selects?

If the state chooses who participates, and owns the arms used, then they’re not “the people” and no “right” is involved - they’re agents of the state using state-owned equipment, exercising a state power.


1,019 posted on 11/16/2007 12:10:59 PM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1018 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson