08-01-2016, 06:33 PM
(07-13-2016, 04:56 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Micah Johnson was the well-regulated militia's newest recruit.
As you should know, the well regulated (well trained) militia hasn't existed at least since the Civil War. Militia units were enough of a nuisance to the Union regular forces during the Civil War that the winning Union veteran officers cut funding for training for the militia, all military aged males. This began a shift in the culture away from trained organized everyman protecting the People to paid professionals bearing the greater responsibility.
This was precisely the time when the US homicide rates began their long climb.
The end of the well regulated militia would be a hard bell to unring. Todays military age adults, and I expect the ladies would be drawn in as well as the men, wouldn't want to give up enough of their time to train to return to a militia culture. It won't happen without a very real threat that militia units would be appropriate to respond to. As I've been saying on other threads, I don't see any spirals of violence escalating just now, thus restoration of a true well regulated militia is (expletive deleted) unlikely. At this point our homicide rate is entirely comparable to Europe and other wealthy nations, so there is no threat that would justify such a drastic response.
But will there be young black men angry at a biased justice system and racist law enforcement personnel? Yes. There will be. Our traditionally racist justice system ought to be fixed. A clear decisive effort to defuse that spiral of violence will bring a much better return than attempting prohibition.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.