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Originally Posted by Benzasaurus
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
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
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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So you've abandoned your original interest in the COTUS 2nd Amendment or you're specifically attempting to derail the conversation you initiated into the pros and cons of Federal Swiss militia practice?
Having served in the Armed Forces of the US I have no objection to woman as "camp followers" but my own experiences force me to conclude that enlisting women in organizations meant to project force of arms is an abysmal failure and has had extremely deleterious effect on the capacity to impose our national will upon the our foes.
I confess to being somewhat mystified about interjection of the Swiss militia as some sort of exemplar when as I've stated it is clearly fits the definition of a bigoted and hateful organization by your own recent accounts as to the criteria for designation as such.
But if your only engaging in the "female stream of consciousness thing" without obvious purpose or parameters, having been involved in longtime domestic partnership with a member of the fairer sex as well as parenting a couple young ladies from infancy into adulthood I completely understand that!