so... I was thinking about chemistry, electricity and politics earlier...
Anyway- gun control.
I was thinking about the whole pro-control argument that holds that the framers of the US constitution intended the 2nd Amendment to cover state militias, not the private citizen.
Er... what state militia would that be, exactly?
The National Guard, you say?
But the National Guard is, and has been, a federally controlled entity for at least the last century. The last operation of an honest-to-gods militia would probably have been the Mexican-American War, give or take a few years.
Besides- if the the National Guard were our state militia- that is to say, a body of armed men mustered at need for training or the defense of it's home state- where then, have massive quantities of these formations been for the last ten years?
Deployed (arguably offensively) overseas.
So much for the defense of the states and the rights thereof.
So. Who's your militia?
Who would be the last option, the final sanction, if the federal government went rogue.. er, any more rogue?
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More rogue? Really, what a horrible thought.
Horrible, perhaps, but by no means unthinkable. Not any more. I dare say it's inevitable, at this point. We're on the same slope the soviets rode into flames, and the tsars before them. I better stop before I get into another rant.
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