Didn't the NRA just call for a all-voluntary paramilitary group formation?

[barnabas63]

Has the President or Congress condemned this? How can we let someone get on national TV and basically espouse mass insurrection against our laws? What about our right to "domestic tranquility?"

I would like to see the Feds come down on these wackos.

[geckosfeet]

1. Interesting read on the Shays' rebellion - which I would consider a paramilitary group gone awry.

Analogous to what the NRA has become imo.

These are excerpts from Craig R. Whitney, Living with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment, pgs 98-99, regarding the goals of the second amendment.

Under the Articles of Confederation, in 1784, Congress refused Washington's request to establish a small standing army and a trained national militia, though it later authorized a First American Regiment force of about seven hundred soldiers provided by the states to defend against foreign attack, Indian raids, or domestic insurrection. The states provided indifferent support, and the regiment was incapable of dealing with Shays' Rebellion in western Massachusetts in 1786-87, an armed uprising against the state government by debt-ridden farmers force into bankruptcy because of the high taxes that had been levied on them to help pay off the state's Revolutionary War debt. After farmers organized an armed Minuteman force and shut down courthouses in Northampton and Worcester to prevent foreclosures on distressed properties, the government called out the state militia, but eight hundred of them joined forces with the rebels. The continental congress then stepped in to help Massachusetts draft more obedient troops, and when 1,200 rebels moved on the national arsenal at Springfield, the government militia routed them, sending Daniel Shays and Eli Parsons fleeing to New Hampshire. A year later, Major Samuel Nasson of the Massachusetts province of Maine tried to make the best of the militia's performance: "If during the last winter, there was not much alacrity shown by the militia in turing out, we must consider that they were going to fight their countrymen."

Also see his NYT op ed from 7/24/2012, "A Way Out of the Gun Stalemate" from after the Aurora shootings.