Shoemaker submitted his original response to the complaint on Sept. 18, including a defense reading: “There was and will be no Constitutional violation in enforcing the statute because the phrase ‘bear arms’ is a 1791-era idiom referring to military or militia service. Plaintiffs have failed to plead their involvement in a militia.” [More]
He “loves history“? You can’t prove it by this.
This is the quality of moron presuming to detemine your rights in New York? What repercussions will this douche suffer?
Looks like the county prosecutor is just as big of an @$$hole.
To those praising the “Only One” for “deescalation,” this was elitism writ large. He knew who she was and who she knows. Imagine what he would have done to her if she weren’t the DA, that is, to you and me, for the same behavior.
All she had to do was “apologize,” and she’s back to having the uniforms put you and me behind bars for claiming our rights.
I guess it depends on what one calls “a militia.” Some folks in Washington, DC said it this way.
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10 U.S.C. § 311
Sec. 311. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of
age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or
who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of
female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are –
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval
Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are
not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
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That’s not something scribbled in invisible ink by Bavarian Illuminati scribes on the back of some parchment. It’s part of the United States Code: i.e. it is current Federal Law. You would think a sitting judge would be familiar with it.
Unless…..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willful_ignorance#:~:text=In%20law%2C%20willful%20ignorance%20is,problem%20would%20require%20extensive%20effort).
This clown does NOT “love” nor does he KNOW history. I have studied our founding era extensively and there are a few FACTS he sort of pretends to not exist.
One, EVERY able-bodied man in a given town or county were already part of their local militia. Whether they showed up for weekly drill or not, whether they had their own firearm or not.
I have seen old requisition douments deaiing the pruchase of powder and shot for a number of local militias. The fact that each order contained requests for ball of four, five, or more different calibers proves that the weapons carried by the members were not issued, but rather the weapons these folks had a home for their own use.. hunting wild game, for defense against indians and other predators two or four legged, for sport or competition, or whatever. Nearly every town in those times had an ordinance written into law that the MEN, when travelling to church meetings on Sunday, were REQUIRED to carry their own muskets or pistols as they travelled to and from Meeting. The Brit Redcoats carried muskets that were all identical, producion made in quantity, and all firing the same guage ball. Not so with Colonials.
There is zero question that our own militia, then and now, comprised normal everyday citizens of any given area, bringing and using their own arms. Anyone trying to claim otherwise is either a liar or ignorant, more likely both. like this clown above.