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Guess what? Members of the Tea Party and the Oklahoma legislature would like to join forces to start a militia army! Reports the Associated Press: “Tea party movement leaders say they've discussed the idea with several supportive lawmakers and hope to get legislation next year to recognize a new volunteer force. They say the unit would not resemble militia groups that have been raided for allegedly plotting attacks on law enforcement officers.” The army would protect against “federal infringements on state sovereignty.” (For further reading on the noble concept of “state sovereignty,” see our “Review of the Checkered History of States’s Rights”—or, if you want to sleep at night, just don’t!)

But how will this volunteer army defeat terrible infringements on states’ rights (e.g., abuses of power such as providing affordable health care for the middle class) with their guns and/or misspelled posters or whatever? According to the A.P., “even the proponents say they don't know how an armed force would be organized nor how a state-based militia could block federal mandates.” A lawyer, probably, would be as effective—if not more so!—as a volunteer army in terms of overturning federal mandates. Someone Google the Second Amendment, see if there’s anything about “right to bear counsel” in there.

See also: VF Daily bets on the chances that the Tea Party could ever overthrow the government.