Lawmaker: Make all Idaho adults militia members

[IDemo]

BOISE, Idaho — Lawmakers fearful the U.S. Supreme Court might one day reverse itself on the issue of individual gun rights aim to change the Idaho Constitution's definition of a militia to include all the state's adults.

That way, argued Sen. Jim Rice of Caldwell Wednesday in the Senate State Affairs Committee, the federal government could never swoop in and disarm residents.

Rice wants to put the amendment before voters in the November 2014 election, calling it an important "backstop" to existing protections of individual gun rights.

For now, however, he just wants to get people talking about the issue.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/02/27/2469064/lawmaker-make-all-idaho-adults.html#storylink=cpy

[Drale]

1. Ok so everyones a Militia member

when are we going to get to that "Well Regulated" part? They couldn't get people to go to Militia training days in the 1790-1840's, they had to have kegs of beer for after to bribe people to come.

[Mopar151]

3. Shades of Mel Thompson......(not good)

The late NH Governor / John Birch Soc. luminary wanted the NH National Guard equipped with nuclear weapons. Imbeciles like Ol' Mel and this Jim Rice goober in Idaho fantasize about having their own private army to command

[jmg257]

2. Most males from 18-45 already are, both State and federal militias. Hasn't

seemed to make any difference in the past.

Maybe Rice expects Idaho will try something 'new' and go about providing arms for their Militia members?


"46-102. STATE MILITIA -- MEMBERSHIP -- EXEMPTIONS. The militia of the
state of Idaho shall consist of all able-bodied male citizens of the state,
and all other able-bodied males who have or shall have declared their
intentions to become citizens of the United States and are residents of the
state of Idaho; who shall be more than eighteen (18) years of age, and except
as hereinafter provided, not more than forty-five (45) years of age, subject
to the following exemptions:..."

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Well, we already have an unorganized militia

is he going to require drill at least once a month? I mean, otherwise it is not WELL ORGANIZED.

[madinmaryland]

5. Heh! That means we can send all Idaho adults to Afghanistan!!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. "Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

H. L. Mencken

[rustydog]

7. "Idaho ladies and gentlemen! Where the state musical instrument is the banjo,

and the state phrase is: You got a purdy mouth!"