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Spider Jerusalem

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5. We also have police departments, fire departments, EMTs, and again the aforementioned National Guard

Reply to Recursion (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 12, 2013, 01:25 PM

Jan 2013

and coordinated neighbourhood-level emergency response is best left to organisations with the training to implement it. (The only situation in which a "militia" would be at all useful in any kind of response scenario would be in suppressing riots, insurrection, looting and open civil war. If those become a serious problem enough to warrant invoking the "unorganised militia"? The country is past saving and the issue is probably moot anyway.)

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You know, we do have a militia, and we don't do anything with it [View all] Recursion Jan 2013 OP

Good. Let's start with all those over 45 years of age turning in their guns. Hoyt Jan 2013 #1

We don't do anything with it because we have the National Guard and reserves. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2013 #2

There's nothing "archaic" about organized neighborhood-level emergency response Recursion Jan 2013 #3

We also have police departments, fire departments, EMTs, and again the aforementioned National Guard Spider Jerusalem Jan 2013 #5

It probably varies by state, but in CA the definition is petronius Jan 2013 #4

I think we should and dismantle the Army for the most part and scale back the Marines. TheKentuckian Jan 2013 #6