Peter McClard
2 min readNov 20, 2022

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Sorry, it was former Justice Stevens who suggested it but google "justice who wants to change second amendment" https://www.truthandaction.org/former-justice-stevens-correct-second-amendment/

Funny how illogically and incompletely you argue saying things like the National Guard has two masters, yet gloss over that one Master has a capital M, aka. The President who the governor must abide by, thus only one is the Final Boss in the chain of command, no matter what you say. The governor can't even override a vaccine requirement coming from the Pentagon. I already conceded that a governor could deploy National Guard for the security of the State and we've seen it many times but that state still answers to a Country it belongs to. If a President is dealing with an invasion, he/she has full authority to deploy NG as needed (i.e. Nationalize the National Guard).

But the whole point of my article was that our defenses have fully evolved since then and the idea of the minuteman is a relic (along with muskets). It evolved because it was always talking about the same thing—the Navy and the Army. You spent a lot of energy on the National Guard as the modern "militia" without saying much about the Navy and Standing Army, let alone Air Force. We don't send National Guard to Iraq and our 800 Navy bases around the world have little to do with them either. As far as I'm concerned the NG is basically a militarized form of State Police for when they can't handle mass violence which makes perfect sense. But that is not even what they were addressing in Article I, Section 8 at all. They meant Military Forces because every serious country needs them, you know, like England had.

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Peter McClard
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