(October 24, 2017 at 7:17 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Just stop using "militia", you fucks don't know what that word means.
American State Papers, House of Representatives, 22nd Congress, 1st Session
Military Affairs: Volume 4, Page 856, No. 509. Memorial and proceedings of a convention of militia officers of Pennsylvania for the improvement of the militia system of the United States.
I have to admit; when I hear the word "militia", I immediately think "slack jawed, booger eating, idiot". Though when the Bill of Rights was written, a Militia was seen much differently as what we consider it to be today.
mi-li-tia
[mi-lish-uh]
a body of citizens organized in a paramilitary group and typically regarding themselves as defenders of individual rights against the presumed interference of the federal government.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/militia?s=t
By definition, I think we are far from needing anything remotely close to that today.