Should the US allow militias?

[Napkiraly]

Sources, please.

http://www.infowars.com/

"Infowars Super Male Vitality"
All of my wats.

[Diopolis]

Militia's were nearly always attached to some form of Civil government. Like a township or city or state.

I, for one, would not enjoy roving bands of armed men walking through my dwelling.

1)Would you rather have a government that tells you what to think, what to eat, what to read?! 2)I would rather die than give up my rights!

1)Yes.
2)No, you wouldn't.

[Liriena]

Nah, thank you. I prefer my armed men the same way I prefer my deities: accountable.

[MERIZoC]

Your reading was incorrect/biased/incomplete, Militias are wholly legal under US law. For example...

Yes, they should remain. They're an exercise in the right to assembly, after all.

This, basically. Though I think this woman's motives are debatable.

Stacy Pierce, who says she joined because of President Obama's policies and from "seeing my freedoms being slowly taken"

[Occupied Deutschland]

Yes. If you meant "should the US allow private militias?", then no.

Still trying to puzzle out what you mean by private militias. The closest I can figure would be PMCs and the like, but I'm not sure if that's what you meant...

[Constaniana]

http://www.infowars.com/

"Infowars Super Male Vitality"
All of my wats.

You think that's the weirdest thing on that site? All I have to say is this:

[Diopolis]

Yes. If you meant "should the US allow private militias?", then no.

Still trying to puzzle out what you mean by private militias. The closest I can figure would be PMCs and the like, but I'm not sure if that's what you meant...

Nongovernmental militias would have been a better term. While I intended it to apply mostly to the nutjobs who think Obama is the lizard king or what have you, I suppose it would ban PMCs too.

[Occupied Deutschland]

Still trying to puzzle out what you mean by private militias. The closest I can figure would be PMCs and the like, but I'm not sure if that's what you meant...

Nongovernmental militias would have been a better term. While I intended it to apply mostly to the nutjobs who think Obama is the lizard king or what have you, I suppose it would ban PMCs too.

Ah, got'cha.

There's a problem, however.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[Diopolis]

Nongovernmental militias would have been a better term. While I intended it to apply mostly to the nutjobs who think Obama is the lizard king or what have you, I suppose it would ban PMCs too.

Ah, got'cha.

There's a problem, however.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I would argue that neither of those are technically peaceable.

[Napkiraly]

"Infowars Super Male Vitality"
All of my wats.

You think that's the weirdest thing on that site? All I have to say is this:

....

I...

*sigh*

[Liriena]

You think that's the weirdest thing on that site? All I have to say is this:

....

I...

*sigh*

You really can't even joke about that website.

[Napkiraly]

....

I...

*sigh*

You really can't even joke about that website.

I think it depletes a persons' sanity faster than an Eldritch Abomination.

[Islamic republiq of Julundar]

Name one thing the government does that tells me what to eat, think, and read. My Service doesn't count.

Government fluoridates the water and bans tobacco to make you believe Government propaganda.

The fact that you cannot see that the government is evil incarnate proves that you believe Government propaganda.

[Ancian]

I'm no expert, but I thought the National Guard, run by the individual states, counts as militias.

But they are still attached to the federal government.

States have the right to not let the fed. Gov. use them, they're under states. Completly.
I learned that in school, apparently one state went to court over it and won.

[Divair2]

No.

[Pilotto]

No.

Yes.

[Marsisian]

Relying on militias is like an old man depending on a broken cane, or a soldier depending on a Chauchat.

[Oaledonia]

Each state has one...

[The Norgan Alliance]

"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."

It's kinda guaranteed.

[Occupied Deutschland]

No.

Free men support militias. *nod*

[The BaRen]

Meh.
Depends.
Most of these militias would probably be filled with 'crackpots' who have nothing else to do.
Although I have to ask, why do we need militia's right now? There isn't any kind of government coup de tat or enormous political strife in the US right now. Maybe a militia in gang ridden neighborhoods. Then again, these would be just another example of a gang.
Yes, I support the right to form militias, although only on a county level and approval from the Mayor and City Council.

The feds are already telling us what guns we can own, when we can talk about religion, and what our kids can read!

And what are we going to do about it?
I know what I'm going to do.
Bitch and Moan on NS forums.
You see, the Constitution, nay, most of the Founding Fathers were mother fuckers who rebelled because they were getting a little taxed.
Look at what happened?
Rich mother fuckers in Congress are passing laws on raising taxes and raising their allowance that they get from Uncle Sam. Little has changed, except that we get to choose which rich man to tax us.

[The Silver Bloods]

Yes and it is our right to as stated in the Constitution.

[Mandicoria]

I thought it was technically allowed in the 2nd Ammendment. But if it isn't: Yes.

[Kxcd]

As long as they are accountable to the local authorities, yes...

Relying on militias is like an old man depending on a broken cane, or a soldier depending on a Chauchat.

...but you make an excellent point. Why depend on that which has failed its'task? And what's a chauchat?

[Taber]

As long as they are accountable to the local authorities, yes...

Relying on militias is like an old man depending on a broken cane, or a soldier depending on a Chauchat.

...but you make an excellent point. Why depend on that which has failed its'task? And what's a chauchat?

The worst weapon in industrial-military warfare.