As stupid as I think the OP’s idea is I’m pretty sure it’s constitutional. After all the draft isn’t. What would be really interesting to see is a single state trying to do this, without federal involvment. That’s also probally constitutional, but there’s so very many practicle problems. Actually I think some states do still have a militia of all able-bodied adult males on paper, but that’s just because of old laws never being replealed or enforced.
I went into High School Junior Reserve Officer’s Training Corps, and it was a great experience.
I learned:
[ul]
[li]Red Cross First Aid[/li][li]CPR[/li][li]Map Reading[/li][li]Rifle Safety[/li][li]Rifle Use[/li][li]How To Teach A Training Course[/li][/ul]
10,000X more useful than Gym, which I did not have to take.
So, do that.
As recently as 1940-1945, being surrounded by the Alps and having an armed populace helped the Swiss remain neutral.
I confess that somehow I failed to anticipate the most commonly given objection to the premise: that it would be more or less useless. What practical use 150 million rifle bearers would be is indeed a good question. :smack: For better or worse the US is today a quasi-empire and even the most unlikely paleoconservative, isolationist movement probably wouldn’t change that.