Militias in example sentence

Like the eight-year civil war (in what was then known as Zaire) that nominally ended in 2002, the current fighting involves many different local groups: not only the Congolese government forces, which oppose the insurgents loyal to the Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda, but also the Rwandan Hutu rebels who were responsible for the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990’s and a jungle force known as the “Mai-Mai” militias.

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Militias were raping six-month-old babies so that countries far away could get access to gold and coltan for their iPhones and computers.

Meaning, the federal government could not infringe on the rights of citizens to participate in well-regulated militias.

It was written in a time before the federal government's armed forces were among the most powerful in the world and when state militias were viewed as necessary to protect the states.

In short, the Second Amendment was written to ensure that our newly formed and fragile country had access to organized state militias.

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