I still am not seeing any meaningful distinction between your description of a militia and the National Guard or existing Law Enforcement. Nor am I seeing how Antifa or Drug Gangs wouldn’t use the program as a means to cause trouble.
The only distinction I’ve seen is that people can volunteer and the state organizes it. So I don’t see it as anything more meaningful than simply a state run club?
I mean say the Texas militia wanted to do anything at all?
What jurisdictions do they have that isn’t already covered by an existing body?
If there are no unique jurisdictions, why/how is the militia more of a solution than the existing entities?
If this is mostly for increasing participation in civic engagement, I can see that (though not sure exactly how much I agree)… It sounds similar to mandatory service in the US military…
I’m all for increasing civic understanding and engagement.
I think the mechanism/form that takes matters a lot.