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13342556, Wrong Yang, but that seems authoritarian as hell
Posted by Jon, Fri Aug-09-19 09:29 AM
Making all gun-owners into unfree soldiers of the current regime would make the ruling class even more powerful. Imagine if the Black Panthers were forced to be active military members for the duration of their ability to arm themselves? "Ah yeah, we got a problem with these here black panthers, lets send them to some far-off country to die for our freedumbs"

Bad idea

(Granted, back in those days, the government had plenty of other ways to fuck over domestic freedom fighters, so the analogy isnt perfect, but just trying to roughly illustrate the idea. I dont like it. Neither would the founding fathers who hated the entire idea of a permanent standing army, and would probably regard such a thing to be more like the British Army than a "regulated militia" -- not that the slave-owning founding fathers opinions should ever be considered gospel, but if we're going to appeal to their intentions with the Constitution, i dont think this would fit)