10-10-2018, 12:05 PM
(10-10-2018, 09:34 AM)David Horn Wrote: Moving on to the Militia Act, and your supposition that the need to have armed citizens as a check on tyrannical government is ludicrous on its face. We aren't a nation of sword-wielders these days, which, btw, was the "arm" of choice for most people who had them. If you wish to look back at the arming of America in 1792 as a guide for arming Americans today, you should arm them in a similar manner. If you wish to promote citizen militias, then do so directly.
It may seem ludicrous to one who leans blue today, but it was not ludicrous in a time when a revolution or civil war was so common. Democracy was an experiment, but war was well established. Many do hold the old values, and as usual values will stay in place long after practical application has past them by. That may or may not be the case here.
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.