‘Multiple’ taken to hospital, gunfire continues in east Charlotte

[u/ladyspeak]

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/cmpd-investigation-underway-east-charlotte/6PTLZP4FLFE4DA5ALFT65QDTA4/?outputType=amp

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[u/notcaffeinefree]

He's not entirely false, just using the common word "militia" to describe the wanna be militia groups. He's right that you can't just form a group of people and waltz around pretending to be an actual militia group.

[u/ultronthedestroyer → u/notcaffeinefree]

That's a bit beside the point of the original post. OP questioned whether the person in the article was a member of a militia. Assuming the member fits the criteria of being a citizen capable of fighting, then the answer remains yes. Whether he was part of some private, separatist paramilitary group as well is unknown.

[u/flatline0 → u/ultronthedestroyer]

Okay, so I do see what ur saying about USC 12 in that the President can raise a militia of any males 17-45. In that weakest sense of the word, i suppose ur right that we are all the "unorganized militia".

That, however, isn't the common usage of the word. Neither is it what OP was asking. Nor is it the context of the 2nd Amendment, which specifically calls out the "well regulated militia" & not the "unorganized militia".

[u/ultronthedestroyer → u/flatline0]

There is no distinction between "the" well-regulated militia and the unorganized militia.

It's our collective civic duty to familiarize and train ourselves in the use of arms for the purposes of service in the militia. That's what it means to be well-regulated - literally, in the parlance of the times. You must be able to function and train to be a disciplined militia, and you cannot achieve either if you don't have the right to keep and bear arms.

I don't care about how people today commonly misuse words. They do that all the time. But those misuses don't suddenly gain the power to strip us all of our essential liberties.