My quotation marks were there as scare quotes—I didn't necessarily want to make a judgment about whether it was a well-regulated militia or not. So the scare quotes mean "apparently/seemingly/possibly" or something along those lines.
Anyway, can you unpack what you mean by
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"Switzerland's "militia" is by definition a bigoted and hateful sexist patriarchal anachronism in that it consists exclusively of "able bodied men between the ages of 20 and 34"
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I'm reading you as saying the age limits are very narrow and they should include women. Which, sure, that makes sense to me too.
As for the fact
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the Swiss constitution does not recognize nor does it specifically prohibit the infringement of it's citizens individual right to "keep and bear arms"!
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I think that's neither here nor there, their constitution is theirs to shape as they see fit. I just want to know what people think of another Western country with a militia in place, what they like or don't like about it, and so on.
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