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Infowars has been warning for decades this would happen, clearly just projection, where are all the militias vowing they would oppose this?
by secretsatan 9mo ago
Infowars has been warning for decades this would happen, clearly just projection, where are all the militias vowing they would oppose this?
- SkipperCat 9mo agoThey all joined ICE.
- colechristensen 9mo agoThe militias are cosplaying cowards, the actual people of Minnesota are ramping up and succeeding in resisting ICE. There is a nonzero chance there will be a standoff between the national guard and the army in Minneapolis. Trump is trying to incite an insurrection so he politically gets a free hand to do whatever he wants. If Congress and the courts are too slow or too cowardly to get anything done, he might get what he wants.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 9mo agoWhat militias? I always thought the state nat guard were the modern militias not the fat old man LARPers you hear talking in gun stores.
- rolph 9mo agocivilians vs persons enlisted as government forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 9mo agoUS from your link > The Militia Act of 1903 divided what had been the militia into what it termed the "organized" militia, created from portions of the former state guards to become state National Guard units
- rolph 9mo agoyes, the present national guard is very much a government entity, and held to the same training standards as federal armed forces. they regularily hold joint training. the people at large however are not prevented from forming a militia or a posse, or volunteering to be deputized by a local police force. the common element is that they are responding to a domestic threat originated from government activities. the original conception of american government insists that the government exist at the consent of the governed, in service of the governed, and this consent is revoked when that government fails to colour inside the lines when interpreting the constitution of the USA
- thesuperbigfrog 9mo agoMany US states also have a state guard that is under the sole control of the state government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force These forces are distinct from the state's National Guard and cannot be federalized.
- beedeebeedee 9mo agoYes, but these state militia units would not be capable of offering much resistance to any federal forces (I was a trooper in the CT Governor’s Horse Guard. My company did have some guns, and we got a little bit of firearms training, but nothing compared to the National Guard or Army).
- colechristensen 9mo agoThe definition of "militias" tends to depend on your political affiliation and the interpretation of that word is often a strong argument determined by how you felt about the 2nd amendment. The framers certainly didn't think of militias either as the professional standing force that is the national guard nor could they probably even conceive of these little gun enthusiast wannabe paramilitary groups (or maybe if they wondered what if Don Quixote was an enormous asshole and also a small group instead of just a man) But you get a group of people together, arm them, and give them the goal of being ready to use those arms for one purpose or another... that's a militia. It's a pretty broad term lots of folks want to shove into a pretty narrow definition.
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- stefan_ 9mo agoThey only show up when another kid shot their parents in the face.