Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Why "a free state" as opposed to "the state"? [View all]beardown
(363 posts)So ban or burn the Anarchist's Cookbook? It's out there.
While the militia part was added to enhance (boy did that go wrong) the reasoning of the individual right to bear arms, let's go ahead with your militia theme as the key part of the 2nd.
Heavier military type weapons are available and owned by private citizens, but it takes a butt-load of paperwork and money to do so. The 'well regulated' part of your own militia canard.
What could a militia do that the military can't do? Be in every little town and major crossroads. Be a thousand eyes and ears. Throw a monkey wrench into every unprotected gear or supply demo. Provide detailed local intel when the US military shows up to stop the bad guys. For some strange reason, the Allies in WW II went to great lengths to keep the various occupied militias (resistance) in existence during the course of the war.
Ever read any Alexander Solzhenitsyn?
What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.