Let’s Call The Liberals’ Second Amendment Militia Bluff

Townhall.com ^ | July 11, 2019 | Kurt Schlichter

[momincombatboots]

Nice post.. I was thinking of this during my Bible Study. My suggestion: any militia activity needs to be done the old fashioned way.. no google, no email. Keep it off the grid, well organized.
The NICS data and one local gunshop owner have confirmed: the dramatic increase in first time firearms are moslty libs.
Let us return to the footsteps of founders, of true freedom and equality.
Prepare yourselves for your prison ministry. Prepare your children with truth. Read the Prison Epistles.

[Sgt_Schultze]

A simple substitution: “A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed.”

Accepting the leftist arguments regarding wording, clearly they believe ONLY the well-educated are permitted to read books.

[TalBlack]

So, pick up your weapon and fall in. Let’s do this thing. America, let’s get our militia on.”

You dont pick up a gun to annoy liberals. Guns are DEAD SERIOUS business. That aside the author needs to learn what the term ‘well regulated’ meant to the founding fathers.

[Redleg Duke]

My only issue with this article is the upper age limit of the militia...65.

At 2, with 32+ years of military service, I damned sure wish to be considered part of the militia!

[Redleg Duke]

The is “72”, not “2”! Damned Brydge keyboard has a flakey “7” key!

[FreedomPoster]

Here’s a quote from my profile page that I scarfed from some FReeper long ago:

The term “regulated” applied to clocks means “accurate in keeping time”. It made sense, particularly in 18th Century armies, to pay a lot of attention to how well soldiers could operate in massed formations. Soldiers had to be drilled to load, aim, and fire as one unit. You do NOT want the rifle next to you to be firing (and emitting a shower of sparks) while you are pouring gunpowder into your musket. Everybody had to do every step together with no screw ups.

[GaryCrow]

All this talk about militias is well and good, but the last time I checked the 2nd didn’t say the militia has the right to keep and bear arms. It says the PEOPLE have the right to keep and bear arms. Since I’m one of the people I’m pretty sure that includes me.

[GingisK]

So “we’ll regulated” means we’ll equipped.

According to the Founders, it means well trained. That term in those days was also applied to a "well regulated clock", which is a clock that keeps time accurately.

[BobinIL]

They tried this back in the 80’s with the Michigan Militia and the news media completely vilified them with hit pieces and painted them as gun toting right wing extremists hick rednecks.

With today’s social media and the loss of credibility of the news media it may work now.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

There you go blaming it on the flakey 7 key.Where does it all end. lol

[hanamizu]

After all, back in the olden days, if you made it to 35 you were pretty crusty, practically Joe Biden-like.

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A common misconception. You weren’t ‘crusty’ at 35 in the olden days. You were 35 just like now (perhaps with poorer teeth). The life expectancy was lower because so many children died before the age of 5. That and lots of young women died from complications involved with childbirth.

[Lowell1775]

https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/adjustment/

circa 1755

To Régulate. v.a. [regula, Lat.]
To adjust by rule or method.
“Nature, in the production of things, always designs them to partake of certain, regulated, established essences, which are to be the models of all things to be produced: this, in that crude sense, would need some better explication.” Locke.

To direct.
“Regulate the patient in his manner of living.” Wiseman.
“Ev’n goddesses are women; and no wife
Has pow’r to regulate her husband’s life.” Dryden.

20 year infantry reserve officer here. Modern terminology would be well trained and equipped to fit and work together with other similar bodies.

The Founders would have been most familiar with its usage as in the Locke quote. His usage would seem to mean a more natural evolution of something working well for its purpose.

In the pre-industrial age regulated was most often used in the hand fitting of a complex machine to be “timed” appropriated....”timed” coming into usage for the master’s hand fitting and regulating clocks, chronometers, and later watches.

[Lowell1775]

“You do NOT want the rifle next to you to be firing (and emitting a shower of sparks) while you are pouring gunpowder into your musket.”

A powerful, concise assertion of an obvious truth at the time, now long lost.

Salute!

[FreedomPoster]

You probably didn’t, but don’t miss my #26. We’re on the same page.

[zeugma]

In my not so humble opinion, the devolution of our Republic into that most despotic of governments, a "democracy" is a direct consequence of the abandonment of the entire concept of the militia.

I would really like to see the militia revived. As mentioned in the article, the 1992 riots in LA would have been an appropriate use of militia personnel. More common, would be in post-hurricane environments. If you're a HAM guy, you'll most likely be aware that FEMA and other government agencies make use of civilian HAM operators when standard communications links are down, such as the environment that is often prevalent when a hurricane wipes out cell towers and such. Emergency exercises are held every year during the summer months, and HAMs are an integral part of this. I would say that these folk are the last remaining rump of the militia that previously existed, and would be a great place to start. If we started looking at it as actual militia service, it would probably do a great deal towards expanding our pool of radio operators.

Unofficial organizations like the 'Cajun Navy' would be a part of this as well, and it would be great to have some small degree of official recognition to groups that are interested in being a part of the solution of local civil defense. I think that offloading our civic responsibilities to a professional military and 'first responders' (who are actually 2nd responders - the people themselves are always there first) is a bad thing that we should not encourage. Rather, we should encourage the American ideal of personal responsibility, accountability, and civic involvement.

[zeugma]

Latin teacher here and I can explain. Rule here means the standard expected by regular troops. The problem with militia is that they show up poorly equipped with antique and sub standard weapons. See the use of standard there? Like the “regulars” the militia needs modern weapons. So “we’ll regulated” means we’ll equipped.

Just so. Also back in the day the term 'regulated' when applied to clocks, meant that it was well adjusted, and accurate in its workings.

[Farcesensitive]

The Constitution says Congress should be arming the militia:

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...To provide for organizing, ARMING, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;...

O’Bummer handed out phones, Trump should hand out guns.

[The Pack Knight]

Great article, and I love that he sets the record straight on the nonsensical idea that the modern National Guard is “the militia.” I’ve been thinking for years that a revival of the militia is just what we need.

I think it could catch on more than many think. Look at the popularity of CrossFit, mud runs, MMA training, outdoor and survival gear, etc. I think a lot of people are asking for something like this in their lives without even realizing it.

[Big Red Badger]

Agreed,
I’ve got radios
and lots of camping gear.
Of course if SHTF
I’m a Target.

[CopperTop]

Thanks for the clarifications, folks! d;^)