This is an open letter to PA State Representative Greg Lucas and PA Senator Sean Wiley.  I urge you to introduce a bill creating a Pennsylvania State Defense Force.

All able-bodied persons would be eligible (or required?) to join and must have a suitable firearm at their disposal.

Pennsylvania would join several other states having a state defense force not subject to federal control nor subject to draft into federal service.  These local forces would be rapidly available for natural and man-made disaster aid.  They would provide defence against attack by terrorist or foreign forces in Pennsylvania. Read the rest of this entry »