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The Darker Side of the Militia

On November 8, 1808, in his eighth State of the Union address, Thomas Jefferson uttered the now famous lines, “For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.”[1]  These words intimate the fears held by many of the founders of a standing […]

by Thomas Verenna