A Well Regulated Militia and Free States

A well regulated Militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, .... shall not be infringed. The first portion of the 2nd Amendment is very interesting and perhaps one of the most important Amendments as it pertains to both community safety, security, defense as well as national defense. 

The government wants to say the militas have been replaced by the National Guard. A militia however is not supposed to be politcally installed or controlled.  It's supposed to be memebers of the community getting together and voluntarily creating local defence units and getting together with other units to strategise and create even larger defence systems all the way up to the State level and then the States working together to form even larger units and systems for national defences. What people don't know is that without militas (ground forces) and privateers (water forces), the United States most likely would not have won the Revolutionary War. Both of these groups literally just got together, with their own monies and formed very high quality offensive and defensive systems. Not much different than a company getting together and paying for security.  The wealthier have the most to lose and therefore are generally willing to pay the necessary costs.           

Where have the all the militia gone? With the various permitting, concealed weapons permits and anti-gun laws, the government has forced these groups underground in many instances. Therefore they cannot meet and train on a regular basis without threat of arrest, even though the Constitution calls for such a system. 

Research history has shown my family that my ancestors fought at the revolutionary Battle of Benington, VT. History bears that they were well regulated militiamen and an integral part of helping to win the Revolutionary war within the militia group called the Green Mountain Boys.

A militia group bears many fruits other than safety. It brings men and their families within communities together to work for a common cause. In the State of Florida the Government is supposed to appoint the commanding office of the State Militia but I have never witnessed such an action. Not that I necessarily agree with that system. I think that the rank and file of the various statewide militias groups should elect their commanding officers from the lowest platoon commander to the State Commanding General. Their Commanding Officers should then elect their commanding officers and so on up the ladder. Since everyone is opperating on a voluntary basis and unpaid, there should be know differetial of benefits between officers and enlisted. The best commanders with be elected by their own units and no educational or other requirements should be placed on any man other then his character and abilities of being a good leader of which their can be no better judge than his peers.

Does anyone wonder why the Citizens of this country have been in either war, recession or depression for more than 50% of the time over the last 100 years. Our government has made war profitiable for some and a gratuity for others. We have made military defence a profit center for the rich through control of the military industrial contracting system where votes and policy are exchanged for campaign contributions paid for by the profits from the contracts.  What a system. 

Militia groups deprive the political system of this collusive activites and promote people to get in volved to accomplish a very important community function.  How can that be a bad idea?