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Where are your militias against government Tyranny? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Jarix@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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American Militia Members. Where the hell are you? THIS is what you exist for and you are doing NOTHING!

Edit: I've only heard "defense against tyranny" as justification for these militias by these militia

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[–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean, if you look back to the framing of the constitution, the idea was that a bunch of citizen militias would be kept such that if the country needed defense, they would be able to respond. This was because the new United States lacked (and politically opposed) standing armies like the one which they just fought off the continent.

Since then, the United States acquired an Army, Navy, and Air Force alongside numerous National Guard units. The theoretical need for citizen militias vanished.

The real answer to your question is that we really don’t have citizens participating in “well-regulated militias.” Not from the constitutional context, anyway.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

The need for citizen militias was specifically to support regular forces but also oppose them if necessary. The idea was that citizens should always be more powerful than the government. Some people think that modern weaponry means that people could never overpower the military, but we see it all the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._46