Founding fathers left many lessons on militia

Founding fathers left many lessons on militia 

Barry Schlimme’s view that something written in another time is to be replaced simply because it was written in another time is the rallying cry of the “can’t we all get along, ebony and ivory, people are basically good” lobby that’s hell-bent on disarming the people of the United States (“2nd Amendment from another time”).

And for what? So the relentless totalitarians at home and abroad can take over with nary a shot being fired? It seems so.

Truth is, among the written-in another- time documents of our founding fathers are several timeless principles and precautions:

 “...[A]ll men are ... endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. ... That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed....”

– Thomas Jefferson “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State....” – Second Amendment, United States Constitution “What is the militia?

 It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” – George Mason “What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty.

Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia....” – Elbridge Gerry The wise among us never discard an idea or insight simply because it’s written in another time. 

Stu Mahlin, Hyde Park, Ohio