They ought consciously and carefully to devise and enact legislation that revives the organization of local militias throughout the United States, as the Constitution expects them to do. [More]I've had problems with Alan Keyes in the past. Not on this.
This seems like a project that could be organized to find and then help an honorable rep to write and introduce such a bill, and then to rally gun owners behind it. This seems like the type of thing that could really make a group like GOA take off in terms of influence, and really show Fairfax for the insincere weaselworders that they are.
Perhaps Rep. Massie...?
I'd also like to see lawsuits -- based on equal protection, and on U.S. Code factoring in "ordinary military equipment [that] could contribute to the common defense."
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I thought this was already taken care of? From a 1994 USENET posting:
According to an article in the November, 1992 “Military," ("State Defense Force," Sgt. Bill Wilson, TN Defense Force) “the federal government has mandated that all states will have an organized state defense force in place by 1993." This defense force is closer to a militia than anything else: “Should a natural disaster or civil disturbance occor during such a massive deployment [of the National Guard like Desert Storm]… the governor may elect to mobilize state defense force units to assist [law enforcement and emergency management] agencies.”
This happened on the heels of Perpich v. DOD, in which the governor of MN learned, to his chagrin, that the feds had first dibs on depleting his “National Guard” troops to send them overseas, despite the fact that the state really needed them in an emergency situation. And I seem to remember that within five years or so, every state in the union had complied with this edict. The purpose of an SDF was to have a state militia available that was NOT under federal control.
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