Re: Kiddie exercises his right to bear arms

Don Homuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:21:34 GMT, "Koc77" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >The second amendment states that "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."  When the constitution was written, all able
> >bodied males were the militia.
> 
> But *not* the Militia -- as described within the Constitution.
> 
> That entity is described operationally in Art 1(8)(15-16) and Art
> 2(2)(1).
> 
> It never was some rump group just getting together.
> 
> It always was for the Congress to arm, train and organize it.  Its
> purposes were three and three only -- and None of them was to foment
> an insurrection, even obliquely.
> 
> And that Militia is now the National Guard.


The National Guard of today is nothing more than the Federal Army on
loan to the State.  When push comes to shove, the Federals call the shot.

That's hardly a 2nd Amendment protection for the State (note that the
2nd Amendment supercedes Article I and II of the Constitution)


> 
> There is no other with a Constitutional basis.

The Unorganized Militia:

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/10/311.html