Mr gryphon: Your first post about the guy being an idiot is just opinioneering.
I disagree. He's one of those who thinks 2A is a collective right, that 26 of the provisions in the Bill of Rights are individual rights, but 1 is not, that it is only a collective right of the militia, is both ludicrous and dishonest and shows that he is an idiot. SCOTUS agrees.
“Every late-19th-century legal scholar that we have read interpreted the Second Amendment to secure an individual right unconnected with militia service.” — U.S. Supreme Court, June 26, 2008
"To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution and was premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government (or a threat from abroad)." — U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, March 9, 2007
"Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don’t see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like." — Alan Dershowitz
Having actually been in the Air National Guard, I can assure you that such an entity did indeed flow out of the initial militias.
Yes, with the Dick Act of 1903. Congress created that out of whole cloth. We had state militias, but many militias refused to be federalized at various times, and others who were were often found to lack in training, standardization, and leader qualifications, so Congress created an "organized" militia which now included the pre-existing National Guard. Now they could get more federal money. Yay.
“To see that the people be continually trained up in the exercise of arms, and the militia lodged only in the people's hands.” — John Adams