The horrific and highly successful raids on unarmed Israelis near the border of Gaza show how useful and effective militias can be against lightly armed and armored raiding forces.
Local militias are an innate response to existential threats. They are well fitted to the nature of man.
When men lived in small communities, every man was expected to aid in defense of the community against outside forces, which amounted to everyone outside the tribe or nation. A militia is simply local men working together to protect against the threat of others who want to kill, rape, loot and destroy. Militias can band together to form armies, but they need more training to work effectively as a larger force. When armies are successful at destroying a tribe's or nation's enemies, people can be lulled into believing militias are not necessary or useful.
In the history of the United States, militias were primarily needed to defend against raids by Indian tribes/other nations. A militia does not guarantee success. Militias give a community a chance to defend themselves. With no defensive force, a community is vulnerable to raids of whoever finds them to be an inviting target. There are many times when raiders can be defeated by a lightly armed force with relatively low levels of organization and training. Armed citizens can be a greater deterrent than police. The United States has an excellent core of people with military and reserve experience to draw on for leadership.
The primary advantage of a militia is it is always there. It is reasonably ready to respond quickly. A militia can slow down an attack and defend against a threat until a larger force can relieve it. Police are not equipped or manned to deal with organized raids. There is roughly 1 police per several hundred citizens.
There is an enormous difference between being armed, with some organization, some communication, and some training, to being unarmed with no organization, communication or training.
The gap between some and none is very large.
The Hamas raiders did not show high levels of organization or training. They were lightly armed. They did not need more, because their targets were mostly unarmed with no communications or organization. The surprise attack was exceptionally effective because it was very good at the thing raiders depend on most: surprise!
The attacks on Western Civilization, Christianity, and the United States have become more and more effective, and celebrated at the highest level of government. The threats of raids in the United States has become higher and higher. Potential raiders are becoming more emboldened as police are denigrated and demoralized. Modern communications allow for flash organization through social media.
The Israeli victims were almost entirely unarmed. This was the policy of the Israeli government, which has embraced strict gun restrictions on private citizens since 1949. The enormous death toll at the "Peace Festival" shows how a few armed men can kill large numbers of unarmed victims. The examples of the Bataclan Concert Hall massacre in France and the Pulse Nightclub massacre in Florida show how vulnerable mass gatherings of unarmed people are. The Israeli death toll shows how vulnerable unarmed communities are.
Very few communities in the United States are as unarmed as the Israeli communities were. In the United States there are at least twenty-five million AR15 type semi-automatic firearms, and hundreds of millions of standard 30 round magazines for them. AR15 type firearms are magnificent militia weapons, as noted by the Honorable Judge Benitez in his landmark opinion in Miller v. Beccara.
Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. Good for both home and battle, the AR-15 is the kind of versatile gun that lies at the intersection of the kinds of firearms protected under District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) and United States v Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939).
Several states are attempting to ban the private ownership of these arms because they are effective militia weapons.
The Atlantic and Pacific oceans are no longer the barriers they were to hordes of barbarians from overseas who want all Americans dead. Hamas and Iran refer to the the United States as the Great Satan. The Biden administration has given them billions of dollars.
Our Southern border has been opened to millions of unvetted young men of military age. Major cities are aiding the formation of hundreds of thousands of criminals who see the US Constitution and the rule of law as illegitimate. The raids we see against local property are not sustainable. Those who live on easy theft are likely to expand to where there are more victims. To those on the left, the lives and property of the vast majority of Americans does not deserve protection.
Militias are needed to protect against the threats of barbarians, internal and external. The Second Amendment of the Constitution reads:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
For a hundred and thirty years, those words have been impugned and denigrated by Progressives who declared them to be obsolete.
Authoritarian governments do not like militias, which are locally based and controlled. The shrinking of the world by modern communications and transportation is making local militia and the Second Amendment as relevant as ever.
©2023 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.
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