It was the Plantagenets who would use the English army, and tax the English Barons, to fight their own personal wars on the Continent ... as soon as a weak King came to the English throne, the English Barons jumped him and took control of the army ... now the King had to ask, and promise lands and estates to the English Barons to fight these wars ... over the next 500 years this power swung back and forth ... and with George III a strong King, this balance was swung to the Throne at the time of the American Revolution ...
The United States enshrined in our Constitution the Right of each State to have and maintain their own army, separate from any Federal army, permanently giving the authority over the military to "the Barons", or in our case the States ... this was one of several safe-guards installed to keep the President from engaging us in wars the States didn't agree with ... the President had to ask the States to send their armies to fight ... and references to this in the Civil War abound, we see military units named things like Georgia's 2nd Rifle Brigade, Minnesota's 4th Infantry, Army of Virginia ...
I find no fault with our Founding Fathers putting extra safe-guards to our liberties, even if today we know some to be unnecessary ... very few States have any military assets independent of the DoD ... Maryland is the only one I can think of off-hand ... obviously, the other safe-guards in our Constitution work fine and we don't need the inefficiencies of 50 independent armies to protect our liberties ... Congress has enough power to stop the President from abusing our military, as demonstrated by the recent House Reprimand issued to Obama for using US military assets in Libya on the 61st day of such activity ... Congress can act very quickly when they want to ...
The Federal Constitution does not explicitly give the individual the Right to own a gun ... most of us will find this explicit right in our State Constitutions, each of which was approved by Congress ... this means just resinding the 2nd Amendment doesn't do anything, where the Federal Constitution is silent, the State Constitution holds firm ... we would have to replace the 2nd Amendment with one that gives the Federal government the Right to regulate gun ownership, thus rendering the State Constitutional provisions unenforceable ...
I honestly believe that we will not get 38 States to give up what little power they have left ... the anti-gun rhetoric is just a diversion away from our real problems with too much violence in the flawed belief that taking away guns will end crime ... ha ha ha ... they believe Americans are too stupid to kill themselves without a gun ... ha ha ha ... Covid-19 has killed 5 times as many people in 6 months as guns kill in an entire year (including suicides) ...
Has anyone else noticed these mass shooters are exceptional poor marksmen? ... someone who's good can take out a half dozen coyotes with a varmint rifle, these bozos can't even cap a dozen drunk humans ... $100 at Walmart and we can get kill counts in the hundreds ...