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Originally Posted by HudsonGator
Learn some history and then come back to me.
Oh well, I feel a little sorry for you, so I will help you out a bit. Once upon a time, there once was a thing called the militia, they were the ones who, by and large, fought the wars back in the late 18th Century. They were essentially every able bodied male in a colony.
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You're correct up until this point. Britain had the standing army. The colonists had a bunch of terrorist revolutionaries but no real standing army. Thus every able-bodied male took it to the redcoats guerrilla style.
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The idea that every male should be ready to grab his gun and show up on the battlefield was, however, no longer feasible after the Civil War. Technology and tactics had made it an obsolete concept.
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I wholeheartedly disagree. We have a standing army to fight wars. However, what happens when the standing army fails against a foreign invasion? What about if it disbands in whole or part or turns on the people due to tyranny? Who is the last line of defense then? What exactly is the "battlefield" at that point? The citizens have a God-given right to defend themselves, their family and neighbors, their country, and their constitution from the lawless with force and that is what the second amendment is about. It is NEVER obsolete.
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Fast forward to the early 20th Century, Congress reorganized the militia into the National Guard, which is what we have today.
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No, congress created the National Guard, but it does not replace the militia.
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I was in the infantry, boy, did basic and AIT at Fort Benning, where do you serve, Rambo?
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One does not have to serve to be able to recognize the clear differences in function between a select-fire and a semi-automatic weapon. Again, I thank you for your service, but you're being willfully ignorant here.