Although a tad bit off-topic ... This reminds me of an encounter I had during the service.
We a translator while stationed in the Middle East (great guy, true to cause and a thoughtful person). While kitting up to go out, a young soldier had stopped to pray. The translator hesitated and I could tell he was thinking about something seriously ... So after a few moments with his thoughts, I asked him what was on his mind.
Paraphrasing, he said something like ...
That soldier was praying to God, I pray to God for peace, my relatives on the other side of this conflict pray to God before they go and fight. But ... As far as I can tell, we are all praying to the same God. We all go into battle and we die on both sides just the same.
Then he said he wasn’t quite sure if God really wanted to play a part in our inability to find better ways of settling conflict without tearing all his stuff up and killing his children. Either way ... We had a job to do ... And when doing that job, we were doing it for the soldier(s) next to us, our brothers and sisters in arms ... Not really for a Nation, Flag, God or anyone else for that matter.
In hindsight, we could see some of the good we accomplished along the way, and owned the bad w
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Militias don't exist in the sense that they did at the time the Constitution was written. What militias do exist now are actually civilian groups unrelated to any civic entity. And mostly not formed to protect anything except radical views on race and such. So they have no resemblance to what the Constitution is talking about.
If you are dissatisfied with the manner in which the State where you live is regulating your militias, or lack thereof ... Then that’s your own damn fault.
On the other hand ... The State where I live amended our State Constitution to include the same “fundemental basic rights” to bare arms, the fact the government “shall not infringe” on those rights ... And left out any obligatory language that might confuse people like you as far as “militias” were concerned.
Amending our State Constitution requires a vote by the People and not just the legislature ... And it passed with a 75% margin. It was challenged in the Supreme Court, and since it does not violate the US Constitution, it stands as is.
I notice you didn’t take the time to look up the minimum age under Federal Law that a person can own/possess an AR-15 and ammunition for it. Or perhaps you couldn’t find it, because there isn’t one. Under Federal Law ... You can own/posses an AR-15 and ammunition for it the day you are born or become a Citizen of the United States ... Because it is a Constitutionally protected right, and those rights apply to everyone regardless of age.
Believe me when I mention the Federal Government didn’t just forget to infringe upon that right. It’s the State’s responsibility to govern what the Federal Government has not been granted the power to govern. And ... I hope it doesn’t bother you much that in my State, we don’t lay awake at night worrying about what nit-wits elsewhere want.
They still teach freedom and liberty in our schools, even if it is subjegated to State History classes, due to Federal meddling in Public Education.
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