Thread: Potential Ban/Brady Bill part deux?

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few politicians."
George Mason

"What, sir is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights andf liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins."

Elbridge Gerry

Evidently the militia is different than the governments army and it is composed of the free people. Our fore fathers never intended for us to maintain a large standing army such as we have since WWII. They saw such such a thing as a threat, they also saw an armed populace as a solution to that threat. Historically militias payed their own way, bought their own weapons, powder and ball, uniforms as well if they had the money to do so, and were not a government entity. The ultimate commander of these militias were the governors of their respective states.