As someone who wrote an 800+ page dissertation on the historical militia, killing many trees, I would like to respond.
The short answer is no. The *longer*
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Moreover, neither the National Guard nor the unorganized militia are police forces, with any of the requisite training required to act as such. They are (actually, for the NG, nominally for the UM) intended as military forces--and our schools are no place to station
The fact is that armed teachers, regardless of whether or not they are in the organized or unorganized militia, are not a solution or even a palliative to the carnage that gun violence is currently causing in our nation's schools. Nor is more police in
The solution to gun violence is gun control. There is a reason guns cause carnage in the United States every year but not in other modern western countries. It is not rocket science. And no amount of ideological blindness to this problem, no amount of