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Originally Posted by Antipitas
Tennessee Gentleman, and several others would have us believe that the militia is a dead letter.
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I would indeed. The militia that existed in 1789 and the 2A prefatory clause identified is no more.
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Originally Posted by Antipitas
To that I give you United Airlines flight #93. Those people acted as and were the militia.
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While very brave people they were not militia. I think we debated this once with a guy named Jon Roland when we explained that militia is a noun not a verb. A militia is a system that produces
military units composed of ordinary citizens. It is not a mob with guns, a posse, or a group of folk that band together spontaneously for self defense purposes. Civic virtue is not militia either.
Justice Story was a learned man and so was Mr. Cooley and while their words are nice they do not represent the facts of what the militia in the US ever was.
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Originally Posted by Antipitas
In such asymetric warfare, that we find ourselves in today, the need for the citizen militia still exists.
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Here, we have some marginal agreement. I would say rather: In such asymetric warfare, that we find ourselves in today,
the need for armed citizens still exist for self-defense. WIth more Ft. Hood "lone wolf" type incidents on the rise the need for civilians IMHO to be armed and trained in SD is necessary and I think the American People are beginning to see that. But that is not a militia and the danger we face with citizens being armed is that if not careful these citizens may actually hamper anti-terrorist actions by our LEOs and military.
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Originally Posted by Antipitas
it seems as if at least one scholar agrees with the voluntary militias that were mostly disbanded after the severe scrutiny from the OK City bombing.
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Those organizations you speak of are not militias but rather unauthorized paramilitary organizations.