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To: combjelly who wrote (944480)7/4/2016 10:47:45 AM
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I was at Lexington and Concord recently. The militia that fought there existed before the federal government and was mostly a local thing. Even later when there was some state level organization it was still people with their own firearms.

The miltia had more restrictions on their deployment, and typically didn't train as much as regular soldiers, but they were useful in an insurrection, esp. in places where there wasn't a pitched battlefield, or against smaller deployments of enemy forces which they could outnumber (like at Concord and the following retreat to Charlestown and Boston).

But all of that is besides the point, the 2nd amendment expressly protects the right of the people, not of states, and the milita consisted of people owning their own arms, nothing about the relative utility of the militia in war or insurrection changes or refutes either point.
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