Excellent! Stats on gun violence

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The earliest federal legal definition I find in US law for 'militia' that is close to the time of the Constitution was the second Militia Act of 1792. It conscripted every "free able-bodied white male citizen" between the ages of 18 and 45 into a local militia company. It also required each to own a musket, bayonet and belt, two spare flints, a box able to contain not less than 24 suitable cartridges, and a knapsack: or a rifle, powder horn, ? pound of gunpowder, 20 rifle balls, a shot-pouch, etc., thereby taking away the right to keep and bear arms by making it a stipulation of conscripts.

Uh, no. Requiring militia members to keep and bear arms, does not prevent them from keeping and bearing arms.

It does take away their freedom of choice, though.