The militia movement is decentralized, but it has two large followings—the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters. Both have members who justify the use of violence to counter perceived threats or violations to the US Constitution. [More]Gosh, and to think I've hosted such violent homegrown terrorists in my home, with my wife and children! And used the good china!
Violence is often the right response to initiated violence (aggression). Violence is ethically neutral, and people who whine about those who would use violence to defend themselves and others from aggression don't care if you die.
ReplyDeleteU.S. Code › Title 10 › Subtitle A › Part I › Chapter 13 › § 311
ReplyDelete10 U.S. Code § 311 - Militia: composition and classes
"(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia."
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/311
So, the militia are us, like it or not. However, that has been pointed out before:
"The power of the sword, say the minority..., is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans." -Tench Coxe, "American political economist and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1788-1789, and a key anti-Federalist, writing under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian"" (1788)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tench_Coxe
Prepare for continued self-loathing by some.