Tango Yankee
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Again, we're not all that civilized.
And, unfortunately, becoming less and less so.
We actually like and expect our politicians to have some worry about being shot dead.
No, no we do not. You personally may, but I don't believe the majority of our citizens agree with you.
One thing is that the defenition of militia was consider to be any able bodied man from mid teens to about 60 years of age that could shoulder a rifle and that they were to provide their own rifle. We are not talking about the state militia or National Guard here. It was not considered that it was a national, state government vested militia but local communities organized to respond quickly. The idea as a frontier nation those that could bare arms would do so to protect the community and themselves, in the present day were still have bad guys doing bad things so the need has not diminessed everywheres.
I have no quarrel with your definition of a militia, but how many local communities are organized to respond quickly? Just about none, I expect. And such militias were about self-defense of the community, not about responding to individual bad guys. The only "organized" militias out there these days are likely to be on the FBI's watch list as being organized against our government, not for defense of the community (other than their own enclave.)
I'd like to ask if you don't trust your neighbor to own a gun why would you trust them with the ability to vote?
I don't because I believe that most don't give the issues a lot of thought and instead vote purely on emotions regarding one or two hot-button topics, but whatcha gonna do? [huh]
There are those who like to say "An armed society is a polite society." Well, I politely disagree. I believe that an armed society is a scared society. While I am not rabidly anti-gun it saddens me that so many in our country feel the need to have and carry one for self defense (many rightly so.) However, I recognize that just banning guns is not going to solve things. Until we as a society are willing to address society's ills that contribute to and feed this culture of fear we are not going to resolve the gun issue. A massive culture shift is required, and I don't see that happening for a very long time.
And yes, I do have guns in the house, primarily for dealing with varmints as I live in a rural area. And it isn't because of fear of criminals that I often consider a handgun, but the fact that so many of my neighbors are likely to have them. This isn't a close-knit community.
Regards,
Tom