America's Front Lines Of Defense (Op Ed)

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A US Supreme Court decision ruled some time ago that Americans have a
right to own guns for self defense. However, self defense was not the
founding fathers' intention.

The second Amendment provides for an armed militia; which are not
professional soldiers, rather, citizen soldiers, e.g. minute men.

Minute men were not intended to be armed with government weapons;
rather, privately owned weapons that they can grab in a moments' notice,
and those weapons have to be suitable for warfare in the event it becomes
necessary to defend America from foreign invasion, e.g. the American
Revolutionary War.

Well; if China or Russia should decide to invade America; they won't do so
with shotguns and deer rifles. Professional soldiers will be coming here
equipped with large capacity AK-47's, semi automatic handguns, RPGs,
mortars, tanks, artillery, helicopter gunships, and high tech jet aircraft.

Our minute men will be slaughtered should they attempt to defend us
without weapons comparable to theirs.

NOTE: Assault style rifles are not the same as actual assault rifles. Assault
style rifles are not fully automatic; they're semi automatic, i.e. in order to
make an assault style rifle fire successive shots, its trigger must be pulled
each time; viz: one pull, one shot.
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FAQ: Doesn't the National Guard fulfill the second Amendment?

A: No.

"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."

National Guardsmen neither keep nor bear their arms. The Guard's
weaponry is typically stored in an armory under lock and key rather than on
their persons or in their homes and cars.

Also the "right" spoken of does not refer to military personnel; it refers to
the people, i.e. the citizenry, viz: civilians.

In addition: neither the police nor the Guard can be everywhere at once.
They'll allocate their resources where they decide will be most urgent, while
the remainder will be on their own. The police might even be ordered to
stand down; they've done it before.
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FAQ: Do activists like Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and Montana Freemen, etc.
qualify as militia?

A: No.

The second Amendment calls for a well regulated militia.

Webster's defines "regulate" as

1» To govern or direct according to rule

2» To bring under the control of law or constituted authority

3» To make regulations for or concerning

In other words: the militia spoken of in the second Amendment is not
supposed to take the law into its own hands, rather, expected to conduct
itself legally, i.e. within the bounds of the law and subject to higher powers,
e.g. mayors, chiefs of police, governors, Presidents, and ranking U.S.
military officers.

In addition, the purpose of the second Amendment's militia is the security of
a free State. In other words: national defense.

Some of the mobs, looters, rioters, occupiers, and protestors I've seen of
late have not been conducting themselves lawfully, nor submissive to higher
powers, nor is their agenda in any way devoted to national defense, i.e.
foreign invasion.

NOTE: Cosmetic identifiers like "Social Justice" and "Civil Disobedience" are
merely sophisticated labels for camouflaging what used to be commonly
known as mob rule.
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