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Beside the going through the border thing, why does the USA government accepts unregulated militias ?

• krapp 4y ago
  The Second Amendment.
  • poulpy123 4y ago
    I'm not overly familiar with US constitution but isn't it just about the right of carrying guns ? being a militia is quite different
    • krapp 4y ago
      The amendment specifically refers to the right to keep and bear arms in the context of maintaining state militias, as opposed to a national standing army (which didn't exist at the time.) Even though SCOTUS has interpreted the amendment more broadly than that, and we have a standing army and national guard, we have to allow militias to exist and we have to let them be armed. Ironically, the second amendment also requires that militias be "well regulated," but because we have to use the original 18th century meaning of terms, that doesn't mean regulated by the state, but simply armed and ready, so essentially just self-regulated.