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Stop calling it militias, they should be called terrorist organizations. We arent living in the 18th century any more, we don't have militias any more.
militias also had a duty to support people in emergencies, but people don't like to talk about the bill of rights containing duties to one's neighbors. Militias are almost a socialist concept.
Realistically these people have more in common with Al Quaeda than some kind of 1780s ideal of social solidarity.
I agree that the 75 are part of a terrorist organization, for sure.
The National Guard is a militia though. We don't often think about it like that but it is. Each state has it's own and imo as a sidenote, the national guard completely satisfies the 2nd amendment regardless of what the gun nuts today want the 2nd amendment to be.
That's actually interesting, I thought they were a branch of the armed forces
They are. The NG is not a militia.
We do have state militias still actually, just only a couple and they're seriously for stuff like hurricane clean up.
Or, at the very least, "Moderate Rebels" depending on how much money the CIA gave them recently.
The militias outlined in the constitution is basically the national guard. These are something else
An armed mob of belligerent citizens.