re: #596 Kronocide

I’ve been hearing news reports of local and regional law enforcement heads saying they won’t enforce new gun regs they themselves deem unconstitutional. Which puts the 2nd Amendment evangelicals in a logical quandary WRT the ‘well regulated militia:’

If local-regional law enforcement won’t subscribe to the Fed government, then isn’t that the ‘well regulated militia’ the Holy Founders decided should be armed?

This means that citizens do not have inalienable rights to own weapons.

Discuss. I have to commit some capitalism.

Not really. You need to plow through the federalist and anti-federalist papers some time to realize how much we take for granted (on all sides).

No, they would not have expected the feds to inform the states how to have a well-regulated militia. Not least, they expected state-run militias to be competitive in size and strength if not out-power the federal army. A standing army of any strength was anathema to all sides. I’ve seen arguments that the main cause of the death of anti-federalism wasn’t the civil war but was instead the decision to maintain a large army for its ability to rapidly respond to threats.