Militia and United Airlines Flight 93

Flight 93 was prevented from crashing into Congress/WhiteHouse by "The General Militia".

Police, Army, and National Guard can't be everywhere. But "the general militia" (the able bodied public) can be. And in this case, they took action that prevented Flight 93 from crashing into Congress/WhiteHouse. The flight was taken over by people with box cutters, it was stopped by civilians with improvised arms. And that's why we have a 2A.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-04-22

A column from Sept 2001 (National Review Online) explained the basics of why the Militia hasn't been superseded by the National Guard.

On 09/11 who prevented United Airlines Flight 93 from reaching its target? The National Guard? The regular Army? The D.C. Police Department? None of these had a presence on Flight 93 because, in a free society, professional law enforcement and military personnel cannot be everywhere.

Terrorists and criminals are well aware of this — indeed, they count on it.

Who is everywhere? The people the Founders referred to as the "general militia."

Cell phone calls from the plane revealed that it was members of the general militia, not organized law enforcement, who successfully prevented Flight 93 from reaching its intended target and saved the lives of many others, by sacrificing their own.

That's why the general militia is better than the organized militia, and always will be. We used to call it civic responsibility.

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Second Amendment
America was founded on, "Guns are liberties teeth". If government doesn't trust the public, then Government is the problem.

2nd Amendment was about the militia
...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed ~ 2nd Amendment, Bill of Rights

🔗 Links

https://reason.com/2019/09/11/saved-by-the-militia-2/

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