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David Frum
@davidfrum
It might help if we stopped calling them "militia," an honorable term for the legal armed force of state governments.

A group of armed men who answer to no civil authority are a "gang"

As in:

"Armed gang members march up 7th St. in downtown Louisville."

Chad K. Mills
@ChadKMills
A militia group marches up 7th St. in downtown Louisville. They wouldn’t identify their group, but I know I’ve seen some here before. #BreonnaTaylor #Louisville @WDRBNews

[OregonBlue]

1. Aremed white terrorist gang members.

[soothsayer]

2. That's about the size of it, if you add "racist" and "violent"

[blm]

3. Armed TERRORISTS

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

6. yup.

calling things their correct names is where you MUST start.

[Dave Starsky]

4. But "bunch of fat guys in camo shooting squirrels in the woods"...

Doesn't have the same ring to it.

[MarcA]

5. "Enemy Combatants" and send them to Gitmo. n/t

[DBoon]

7. absolutely

these gangs have the legal and moral authority of MS-13

[Mister Ed]

8. Thank you. These gangs of goons are not the "militia" referred to by the 2nd Amendment.

So let's not help them pretend they are.

[peggysue2]

9. At best they're vigilantes

At worst, domestic terrorists.

[maxsolomon]

10. Mob. Armed Mob.

To far too many Americans, Gang = Black or Hispanic.