@blatham,
blatham wrote:No armies are threatening and no militia could stand, even briefly, against modern armies' arsenals (including nukes).
You are overlooking the fact that the militia is supposed to have a modern arsenal themselves.
blatham wrote:Thus my post pointing to the absurdity of any claim that there is a need for the weaponry you can buy off the shelf including automatic assault weapons to protect yourself in a manner that made sense in 1790.
Need, need, need. The eternal refrain of the serf.
"I can't have it because my lord says I don't need it."
Americans are free people. Need doesn't matter. We have the right to have weapons if we
choose to have weapons.