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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt might help if we stopped calling them "militia," an honorable term for the legal armed force of s
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David Frum
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It might help if we stopped calling them "militia," an honorable term for the legal armed force of state governments.
A group of armed men who answer to no civil authority are a "gang"
As in:
"Armed gang members march up 7th St. in downtown Louisville."
Chad K. Mills
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A militia group marches up 7th St. in downtown Louisville. They wouldnt identify their group, but I know Ive seen some here before. #BreonnaTaylor #Louisville @WDRBNews
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It might help if we stopped calling them "militia," an honorable term for the legal armed force of s (Original Post)
soothsayer
Sep 2020
OP
Thank you. These gangs of goons are not the "militia" referred to by the 2nd Amendment.
Mister Ed
Sep 2020
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OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)1. Aremed white terrorist gang members.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)2. That's about the size of it, if you add "racist" and "violent"
blm
(113,011 posts)3. Armed TERRORISTS
calling things their correct names is where you MUST start.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)4. But "bunch of fat guys in camo shooting squirrels in the woods"...
Doesn't have the same ring to it.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)5. "Enemy Combatants" and send them to Gitmo. n/t
DBoon
(22,340 posts)7. absolutely
these gangs have the legal and moral authority of MS-13
Mister Ed
(5,924 posts)8. Thank you. These gangs of goons are not the "militia" referred to by the 2nd Amendment.
So let's not help them pretend they are.
peggysue2
(10,823 posts)9. At best they're vigilantes
At worst, domestic terrorists.
maxsolomon
(33,250 posts)10. Mob. Armed Mob.
To far too many Americans, Gang = Black or Hispanic.