Who cares? Militias use to be important as every able body white male property owner was required to not only join the militia but to actively train with the weapons of war to defend the nation. The world of war has moved on. These guys are just thugs looking for a fight.
The world has moved on?
Our decades long fighting in the Middle East is essentially a fight against a militia. That militia did pretty damn well.
The Russians fought a militia in the 80’s, and wound up being pushed out.
A large part of the forces we fought in Vietnam were militia. We know how that went.
To discount the militia ( an armed populace, with or without training really) is a serious, serious miscalculation.
now mind you, I think all of this is just posturing. With all the belly aching and pissing and moaning, even by yours truly, I don’t think any type of armed conflict is going to come out of this. Things would have to seriously deteriorate for that to happen. Yes, there may be little skirmishes with armed citizens blasting rioters if that rioting shit continues, but actual “civil war”?? I highly highly doubt it.
But I will again say, to those who dismiss the seriousness of going up against an armed populace, especially one as well armed as the American citizens... huge freaking mistake. Huge.
World of war. These armed extremist using the term Militia in the historical sense, at least in American history, is a travesty and an insult to the men who served in those colonial Militias protecting their homes, cities, states and the nation.
I mean I don't care if they want to paly war games in their spare time but, we are a nation of law and order.
HAHAHAHAHA, That's rich, law and order out of a democrats mouth. Where is the law and order in defund the police? Where was the law and order for over 3 months in Portland this summer when DNC/BLM/Antifa thugs robbed, looted, burned, murdered and destroyed public property? Where was your law and order when BLM/Antifa thugs took over six blocks of Seattle for six weeks denying the rightful owners and tax paying citizens of their rights to use their property. All of these actions happened with the blessings of the democratic mayors, city councils and governors of those states. Take your hypocritical BS down the road. Lying moron.
There were no DNC support for thugs robbing looting, burning, murdering or destroying public property. The thugs all deserve to be held accountable for their actions.
I think all the Pro Fascist militias (ProFa) should sign up with the fascist wing of the GOP. It's a match made for Hell.
What do you mean there was no dnc support? Several democrat mayors and governors came out in support of these people. Granted, a lot of them came out and commiserated with BLM leaders/marchers, and weren’t out there during the actual riots. But it’s a bit of a grey area. They were hardly coming out against the looters and rioters. Whenever they did utter a peep about it, they tried to pull the “it’s not Antifa/leftists/anarchists, it’s really white supremacists and Trump supporters rioting” non sense.
Now, do I think the average joe blow democrat voter supports or agrees with the rioters? Absolutely not. I think most people despised them and wanted them dealt with. The problem was the position the democrat party and media were put in, really a problem of their own making. Trump and Trump supporters were clearly, outspokenly anti-rioter. The rioters were anti Trump, anti-police, anti-capitalism, anti this and that. If the rioters did have a political persuasion, it certainly wasn’t voting Republican. And because the democrat party/media (same thing) position has consistently been “oppose anything Trump supports, support anything he opposes”, they were kinda stuck. They couldn’t come out agreeing with Trump that this shit was outrageous.And because they tied a lot of the rioting to “police brutality and racism”, they couldn’t then oppose them openly and appear to suddenly be supporting police brutality and racism.
So the democrat party (not the voters) had to do this weird “divert blame, ignore, and spin” when it came to the rioting. Which is why we got all those absurd claims like “it’s really white supremacists”, “mostly peaceful protests” as cars and buildings burned in the background, etc.