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So the blue states don't have a National Guard to respond?
Party of statea rights
My state is the best state.
Hey member in Iraq War II when we were losing a bunch of soldiers and instead of throwing more in or thinking about a draft they just sent over the National Guard?
the National Guard. Who . . .were supposed to be guarding the nation?
Anyway. Just in case some of you were not alive to remember that.
National guard was used a lot in ww2 and many other wars including Iraq and Afghanistan, it's not a new thing
In WWII? Really - where were they deployed?
More or less everywhere, really.
Here’s more
Oh, well, the day after Pearl Harbor makes perfect sense.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Army_National_Guard#%3A%7E%3Atext=Because+National+Guard+units+had%2Cthe+Japanese+attack+on+Pearl
I know Washington recently passed an assault weapons ban but we are running into “this is what the second amendment is actually for” territory.
I'm debating whether or not to respond to an email my dad sent me yesterday where a gun rights organization (GOA) he's a proud member of sent a warning to its members that Pam Bondi might not put a hardline 2A rights nut as head of the ATF.
Not sure if I should let him know the irony of voting for the guy that we'll actually need to exercise our 2A rights on
Authoritarian regimes receive the power we freely give right? "There's nothing we can do" is probably a reasonable alarmist statement if trying to get a bill passed, but I assume the "we" in this case is just legislatures not the general public?