Excellent! Stats on gun violence

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The National Guard is the organized militia today precisely because it superseded -- replaced -- the State militia system established by the Founders.

"Today's National Guard is thus a far cry from what the Founders' understood a militia to be" https://mises.org/wire/why-we-cant-ignor...-amendment

Fearful that a large federal military could be used to destroy the freedoms of the states themselves, Anti-Federalists and other Americans fearful of centralized power in the US government designed the Second Amendment accordingly. It was designed to guarantee that the states would be free to raise and train their own militias as a defense against federal power, and as a means of keeping a defensive military force available to Americans while remaining outside the direct control of the federal government.
The unorganized militia was imagined as a sort of potential militia, that could be, as made clear in numerous state constitutions, called to assemble, with arms, to "aid the civil power.

Yes, the use and idea of the un-organized militia is not thought well of today by centralist and revisionist, but the militia laws have not been repealed and it has recently been proven to fight a corrupt federal government.https://www.dailyyonder.com/5-years-bund.../12/31385/

LOL. That was not the militia at the Bundy Ranch. It was an armed mob, and they were certainly not there to "aid the civil power." Just the opposite, they were there to prevent law enforcement agents from doing their job.

If George Washington had been President, he would've called up the militia -- the real militia -- which would have arrested any of those miscreants who were dumb enough to still be there when the National Guard arrived on the scene. https://billofrightsinstitute.org/educat...rebellion/

And FYI, the militia laws were about the formation and employment of State military forces. Those laws do not, in any way, advocate or condone private citizens taking up arms against the government. That is called insurrection, which the militia can be -- and has been -- used to suppress.