Do you believe state militia should exist?

Yes I'm in the Texas State Guard. The State Defense Force has saved the state of Texas 7 Million Dollars a year in Search & Rescue efforts and assit the National Guard .

I'm with the Virginia Defense Force, the actual bonafide state militia. We generally tend to shy away from the word "militia" because all too often the word "militia" itself paints pictures of subversives who would go out and say unfortunate things like they want to overthrow our government. That's in no way shape or form us. We are an official State Agency under the Virginia Dept. of Military Affairs. Our upline command is the State Adjutant General and the Governor.

Not unless they meet military standards, "well regulated" and under the command of the CinC

Yep I'm a Proud Member of the Texas State Guard.

Absolutely yes. But ONLY the state regulated ones. Ohio is completely funded through the state and serves alongside the Army National Guard.

The respective state National Guards are authorized by the Constitution of the United States. As originally drafted, the Constitution recognized the existing state militias, and gave them vital roles to fill: "to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasion." (Article I, Section 8, Clause 15). The Constitution distinguished "militias," which were state entities, from "Troops", which were unlawful for states to maintain without Congressional approval. (Article I, Section 10, Clause 3). Under current law, the respective state National Guards and the State Defense Forces are authorized by Congress to the states and are referred to as "troops." 32 U.S.C. § 109.

Although originally state entities, the Constitutional "Militia of the Several States" were not entirely independent because they could be federalized. According to Article I, Section 8; Clause 15, the United States Congress is given the power to pass laws for "calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions." Congress is also empowered to come up with the guidelines "for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress" (clause 16). The President of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the state militias "when called into the actual Service of the United States." (Article II, Section 2).

The traditional state militias were redefined and recreated as the "organized militia"—the National Guard, via the Militia Act of 1903. They were now subject to an increasing amount of federal control, including having arms and accouterments supplied by the central government, federal funding, and numerous closer ties to the Regular Army.

State militias should fall under the control of the state and should be compensated for their time, expenses, and injuries and death, and should be monitored so that there is no harm or abuse to citizens, this should be in the state's constitution.

is int that called the National Guard?

Texas Has a State funded Texas Guard. Differes from the National Guard. They can only go WITH IN the state. I do not know much about it.

Yes, I belong to the KY militia but it's so few in number of members I wonder why more people have not joined.