massimus on 28 May 2018
Militias refer to state militias. For example, in the civil war your state was your regiment. You would grab your rifle and meet up with your state. You were a Virginian or a New Yorker before you were American. These rules were set at the peak of states rights. It was not illegal for a state to have a strong defense.
It’s also weird to assume the military would follow the whims of a tyrannical federal government and start droning citizens. At most the military would split in a civil war but the US has an entirely volunteer military. They would be sooner to throw out a tyrant like Egypt than follow the ruling class into a spiral. They are sons, daughters and brothers not political robots.
