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I haven't read through this thread, so maybe someone has already covered this..... but I am opposed to having to join or be made a part of anything other than my basic privileges of citizenship as a requirement to be satisfied so that I may exercise my 2nd Amendment right - a right which I was born with, which I have simply because I breathe air, and which I will continue to enjoy and exercise as long as I am able to draw breath.

It's not that I am opposed to militias......in fact I think they are a splendid idea. It's the "requirement" part that I can't get on board with. To the OP's point that a "future Democrat controlled legislature will also almost certainly eventually pass very restrictive, sweeping gun laws, which will be upheld by the new liberal Supreme Court", YES, they may do that. But that doesn't cancel my 2nd Amendment right. The second Amendment didn't create the right, it documented and affirmed the existence of a HUMAN right, that is mine, yours, and anyone else's simply because we are humans. In the Soviet Union, free speech was illegal, but that didn't mean that there was no right to freedom of speech. All it meant was that the soviet gov't was a crapulent and venal institution dedicated to crushing humanity's right to freedom of speech. But the right doesn't go away.

That is how I feel about firearms specifically, and self defense generally. It is an ancient human right. Nazis in the democrat party can pass all the laws they want......the right does not cease to exist. But what does exist at some point, when enough laws have been passed, is the need to get the musket down from the door and to go to war against fascism in gov't. At that point, I'll gladly sign on with any militia that will have a broken down old man and do my part; but I don't want to have to either join, or be automatically enrolled in a militia just so I can exercise my fundamental human right to keep and bear arms during peace time. If it ever comes to that, then it is time to exercise that right in the name of preserving the security of a free state.

I'm too old to give a popcorn fart for what democrats do or think. I'll oppose them as long as I can, but I won't credit their fascist laws with any validity or power over me. And if it comes down to it, then let me found like Trooper Padget in a pile of spent brass........and that's with or without a militia commitment.