Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, is recruiting “special deputies” to deploy during disaster or unrest. Opponents say the move is dangerous.

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      militias also had a duty to support people in emergencies, but people don’t like to talk about the bill of rights containing duties to one’s neighbors. Militias are almost a socialist concept.

      Realistically these people have more in common with Al Quaeda than some kind of 1780s ideal of social solidarity.

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      I agree that the 75 are part of a terrorist organization, for sure.

      The National Guard is a militia though. We don’t often think about it like that but it is. Each state has it’s own and imo as a sidenote, the national guard completely satisfies the 2nd amendment regardless of what the gun nuts today want the 2nd amendment to be.

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      they should be called terrorist organizations

      Or, at the very least, “Moderate Rebels” depending on how much money the CIA gave them recently.

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      The militias outlined in the constitution is basically the national guard. These are something else

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      We do have state militias still actually, just only a couple and they’re seriously for stuff like hurricane clean up.