"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials." - George Mason, Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 1788
but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. - Federalist Paper 29 (Alexander Hamilton)
I think that should clear it up Hogg (btw...we have a feral swine problem in America)