Yes, I'm lazy. Deal with it.

Reading Remus ought to be required in schools.

Before DC captured the National Guard, before it became a de facto federal auxiliary and reserve, before it was named the National Guard, they were state militias, a fully realized state-level Second Amendment. A cynic would see today's National Guard as federal garrisons merely, DC's de jure armies of occupation. A cynic would see the National Guard and the newly militarized police forces as an emerging duo, the one trained and equipped for urban and local warfare, the other for home invasions and small scale raids. Throughout history the cynics have seldom been wrong. Perhaps after sixty years of undeclared wars we shall now have undeclared military rule.