Regulation would included licensing, training, drills, and organization.
Nobody has proposed militia training, militia drills, militia organization. Gun owners have been opposed to “licensing”, but “licensing” is not a “militia” regulation, but a “gun owner” regulation. Require all members of the militia to become “licensed”, and we can talk.
If all citizens are part of the militia then regulation of the militia is the same thing as regulation of gun owners. These are not two different groups of people, or two different types of regulation. When I say “licensing” I’m advocating essentially what any military does before they put a weapon in a soldier’s hands- training, and a record of that training, as a pre-condition to arming and deploying a soldier.
Nobody has proposed militia training, militia drills, militia organization. Gun owners have been opposed to “licensing”, but “licensing” is not a “militia” regulation, but a “gun owner” regulation. Require all members of the militia to become “licensed”, and we can talk.
If all citizens are part of the militia then regulation of the militia is the same thing as regulation of gun owners. These are not two different groups of people, or two different types of regulation. When I say “licensing” I’m advocating essentially what any military does before they put a weapon in a soldier’s hands- training, and a record of that training, as a pre-condition to arming and deploying a soldier.