A new Working Paper by Nicholas J. Johnson entitled Harnessing the Resource: Transforming Armed America into a Public Asset is available. Nick is Professor of Law at the Fordham University School of Law, FRC Fellow, and coauthor of Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, and Policy. The paper’s abstract reads:
This paper excavates the constitutional separation of militia and standing armies, modern statutory distinctions between “organized” and “unorganized” militia, and the historically serious enforcement mechanisms attached to militia obligations. Building on that foundation, it proposes deploying trained “citizen protectors” under lawful militia auspices to shift school protection from the prevailing reactive model to a preventive posture—leveraging militia scale to improve proximity, speed, and coverage at lower cost than conventional policing. As a low-friction introduction to the basic idea, the paper sketches a “cost-free trial” of militia training centered on mandatory physical fitness and closes by emphasizing potential political feasibility through executive exercises of militia authority notwithstanding legislative gridlock.
Read the entire paper HERE.