And who are the militia? - Granite Grok

And who are the militia?

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

Molon Labe - AR-15Progressives and Statists can no longer diagram sentences (or so it seems) in determining subordinate clauses and that’s why they just can’t accept that we have an individual Right to bear arms enumerated by the Second Amendment (but preceding its writing).  So let us remind them who the militia really are (and they should also go back in time to learn the definition of “regulated” when the Constitutions were written instead of it now being defined as an action of Government). Thus, as we briefly talked about on the show, I much prefer these two Articles from the NH Constitution:

[Art.] 2-a. [The Bearing of Arms.] All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.

I, once again, direct you to the testimony of Ian Underwood when anti-gunners were deciding to NOT obey our Founding Law themselves (“It doesn’t say ‘some‘ persons. It doesn’t say ‘approved‘ persons. It doesn’t say ‘persons who don’t scare us’. It says ‘all persons’….The first is that a bill like this undermines respect for the very rule of law itself. After all, if the legislature isn’t going to respect the limits placed on it by the NH Constitution, then why should individuals respect the limits placed on them by that legislature… In other words, if you can behave as if ‘all’ doesn’t mean ‘all’, why can’t I behave as if ‘not’ doesn’t mean ‘not’?”).

[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

And to carry out Art. 10, you need 2-a. In any case, going back to the 2nd, who are the militia?  Is it the National Guard, as Leftists would have us believe?  What did the Founders actually say?  Go ahead, Lefties, let your arguments crash upon their shores (emphasis mine):

  • Patrick Henry, 1775

“Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.”

  • James Madison, Federalist 46

“Those who are best acquainted with the last successful resistance of this country against the British arms, will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it. Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.”

  • George Mason, Virginia Ratification Convention, 1778

“…to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”

  • Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 28

“…if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.”

  • Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 29

“Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped;”

  • Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright June 5, 1824

“the constitutions of most of our states assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, … or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person; freedom of religion; freedom of property; and freedom of the press.”

What the Left does not want us to do is continue to recognize that the Constitutions were not instituted just to outline our form of government but were written to control the greedy ones in their desire for power over others.  Everything they did was to implement checks and balances against negative side of human nature to obtain and keep power over others.  As history has shown, that’s how tyranny begins.  They knew, given that it had always happened in the past, it could happen here in America.

And we see it happening here, cut by a thousand cuts, here.  Thus, if the absolute worst was to happen, you, I, and everyone else, are the militia.

(H/T: The Blaze)

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