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Sonart I am sorry that I lumped you in with the others since you only posted once and as I looked for your posts I realized you shouldn't have been mentioned in my rant. I apologize. I'll just address your post since this thread is so long for me to address it all at once would add quite a few more pages to it and take allot of time. I hope the rest will read this and I will address theirs as well, or as time dictates I'll pop in and address more of this thread. Unless you see something in this thread that you think is valid let me know and I’ll address it.

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Even though we have a standing army, and national guard, we still have the right to a militia, though the government no longer recognizes this militia as an official arm of its defense, except in foreign invasion of our homeland, in which case you would see a national call to arms.

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According to whom?

According to the founding fathers in the federalist papers. They (the founding fathers) defined that the militia is to be made up of the whole people except for a few public officials and also that the militia was to be made up of free men. A free man would be someone who is not in the military. Why? A solder is considered government property, no freedom of will. The reason that the militia is to be comprised of the people and not the military is that the people won't use their arms to strip themselves of their own rights and freedoms, but the military would. " It is dangerous to liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them over which they have no control." This is why the National Guard is an army not a militia by the founder’s definition.

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If a weapon is an individually operated weapon that is not WMD, it is legal. Therefore, a suitcase nuke would be illegal, but any individual weapons that are not WMD would be legal, with responsible use.

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So what would be considered the responsible, private use of a claymore mine? An anti-tank mine? A daisy-cutter Blu-82? A TOW missile?

A claymore, anti-tank mine, or a daisy-cutter are basically just explosives that can be easily improvised. Example? Timothy McVeigh, Unabomber, suicide bomber, come to mind. A TOW missile? No. Why? It would be considered sensitive technology. Anything that a solder can and or would carry in to battle? Yes.