Militias

I am pro-militia because an organized, intensively self-trained and state-trained citizen militia can help keep the peace, protect against criminals, terrorists, illegal immigrants entering the country, civilian patrols when a community is hit by a tornado etc., foreign invaders, and imperial Presidents that seek to impose a hard tyranny on the citizens by announcing martial law and order all to turn in their guns.

Having declared this, I believe that our efforts to give land back to the states for miners, loggers, farmers and ranchers, and others to use to make a living (as well as for conservation and for recreational users) should  be done peacefully and legally.

Malheur may have been a mistake, but killing Finicum only makes him a martyr like John Brown was.