Regulate Our Militia, And Regulate Them Well

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Rod Miller: Regulate Our Militia, And Regulate Them Well
Published on May 28, 2022May 28, 2022 in Column/Rod Miller
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By Rod Miller, columnist

Armed Americans are killing our schoolkids while they study. They routinely kill them by the dozens for various reasons all across our country. Let me repeat that, armed Americans are killing our schoolkids.

The murderers of our children are excused – if not of their acts, but of their tools of murder – by a populace that has been conditioned to accept firearm ownership as a symbol of our unfettered Constitutional liberty under the Second Amendment.

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Maybe we need to read the Second Amendment not as a Constitutional prohibition of firearms regulation, but rather as a Constitutional requirement for the regulation of people owning firearms. I don’t think that the term “well-regulated militia” could be any more clear.

What if every gun owner in America was required, as a prerequisite of gun ownership, to belong to an organized and regulated militia? How would that violate the Constitution?

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[COL Mustard]

1. A well-regulated Militia would swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution and obey

The laws of their State. A well-regulated Militia would have a well defined purpose and mission set, and would have a structured training program to go along with that. A well-regulated Militia would have armories and arms rooms where weapons and ammunition would be kept under lock and key and only drawn in support of that structured training program.

What we have is a bunch of yahoos buying every goddam gun they want and all the ammo they want and running around in camo cosplaying Army. Most of us gave that up at maybe 10 years old. (I was in the Army and I sure don't want to wear my old BDUs. They remind me that I'm now qualified to be in the Gravy Seals on Meal Team 6.) Take away these chickenshits' guns and they show themselves to be cowards. Look at the guy at the Beto rally the other day who got de-horned by a bunch of physically smaller women who have more balls than he ever dreamed of. He was in a panic after the one woman grabbed his bullhorn and the rest shouted him down.

Want guns? Join the Militia. Otherwise shut the fuck up.

Mustard out

[Ilsa]

2. Those other groups, like Oaf Keepers, swear something else.

I don't know to whom the allegiance is pledged for those traitors.

[COL Mustard]

4. Oaf Keepers, Silly Boys, III% IQers....

In my opinion they are all enemies of the Constitution and what it represents. They are supporters of tyranny and are the new Nazis. And I hate Illinois Nazis. (Sorry, gratuitous Blues Brothers reference.)

[cornball 24]

6. Spot on!!!!

[Baitball Blogger]

3. You are so right.

It’s the reason why the NRA only texted: “shall not be infringed” and did not include “a well regulated militia”

We need to exploit textualism and take down the right using their own weapon.

[global1]

5. I've Always Said The Emphasis Of The 2nd Amendment Is Put On The Wrong Words....

When people read it - they put the emphasis on the word 'militia'.

OK - now lets read it again - and this time put the emphasis on the words 'well-regulated'.

If you want a 'militia' per the 2nd Amendment - it needs to be 'well-regulated'.

Right now - we have learned that it is not 'well-regulated'. So that is the nature of what needs to be done in order to find some middle ground on this issue.

Put teeth into the 'well-regulated' portion of the 2nd Amendment. That is what those people that support 'gun regulation' are saying should be done. They are not saying - take the guns away - but put some meaning into well regulating the use of the guns that people now have and people want.

The other thing I've said in the past is that the framers of the 2nd Amendment used the term 'militia' - kind of an archaic term today - in place of the word 'army'.
We didn't have an organized 'army' at the time - and the terms 'well-regulated militia' were used synonymously.

Today we have an organized 'military' or 'army'. We have many different branches of service - all of which are organized and well-regulated. One could ask the question - does that organized military we have - meet the requirements of the 2nd Amendment as intended by its framers?

If the Judicial Branch of our government want to use the Constitution as the cornerstone of our laws based on the language usage and terms of the day that it was written - then they need to take the terms 'militia' and 'well-regulated' for what these framers intended back when it was written and use that as a basis for bringing some sense of sensibility to us in this century.

[stopdiggin]

7. well traveled ground

and even more traveled over the past 60 years.

You could also decide that the emphasis should be placed on the term 'arms' - and then we could have a fine debate on whether that meant anything (or everything) from wrist rockets and BB guns - to RPGs, Apaches, nerve gas and Stinger missiles. But at some point - common sense must take precedence over men with a fixation on dusty documents.
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