@RandallGartman @MamaDelilahRoo @CraigLipton4@moduck62655@brotherjones_@Kaylan_TX From the earliest days:
“noe man” was permitted to “go two miles from the Towne unarmed, eyther with Gunn or Sword” or to “come to any public Meeting without his weapon”.
Generall Towne Meetinge at Portsmouth, 1st of March, 1643, in Rhode Island Records, Volume 1, at 79.
@MagoffinWilliam @FTW_Clark@realMWO@Bobby_Don_Welch@davidhogg111 The militia regulations show precisely how it worked in fact and law in every Colony then State for generations. That's the evidence.
@MagoffinWilliam @FTW_Clark@realMWO@Bobby_Don_Welch@davidhogg111 Militia are near-universal service unless exempted, thoroughly civilian:
"Every citizen shall * * * be constantly provided with a good musket or firelock * * * or with a good rifle”
Revised Statutes of the US (1873-1874), TITLE XVI, THE MILITIA, § 1628, 18 Stat. 285, 285.11189
@RandallGartman @MamaDelilahRoo @CraigLipton4@moduck62655@brotherjones_@Kaylan_TX The Constitution assigns the "police" function to the "Militia"—“execute the Laws” ART I, § 8, CL 15. Therefore the Militia must be always "well regulated" by law to perform that function. The police are a subset of the militia structure.