[M_Bakhtiari]

>Respectfully, how does your desire to bear private arms contribute to your militia or the freedom of your state and country?

It doesn't directly, but without a private right to bear arms all you're left with is a centralised police force on steroids.

The big fault of the American gun rights movement is of course that they ignored that arguably most important part of the 2nd amendment, there is no real popular militia that can be taken seriously in the US. For goodness sakes, when the ATF gets to drive around in M1 Abrams tanks, whether you can have a bump stock or not becomes pretty meaningless.

One could of course argue that the American model would just collapse into warlordism, but it would be interesting to see it tried.

[scrub_tier]

Respectfully, even if there was a strong recognized militia they had a tank I cannot follow the reasoning. We're a troubled democracy, but the army is practically saintly to many. A sample size of 1 is small, but does anyone here NOT know someone in the military? If so, would you shoot your fellow countrymen? I understand how quickly people abandon their principles in times of crisis, but in 230 years and we've had one civil war?