>>64678272
What the fuck are state guards? Harper's enforced by the DoD or something?

>>64678298
They're state-funded paramilitaries effectively. They operate entirely within the state's own borders.

>>64678272
Outside of couple of states they are essentially deactivated and have no military roles outside of wearing camo

>>64678298
State funded and state controlled militas.

They're like the national guard but they get no federal funding and the President has no ability to command them so they can essentially serve as the Governor's personal army.

In practice they can either be anything from a National Guard light who can act as light infantry or additional border guards like in Texas, glorified traffic cops and disaster relief people who only show up to events and state disasters to offer aid, to chronically underfunded LARPers who sit around in a barracks being made up of obese Bubbas and Fudds pretending to be soldiers a few weekends a year.

A few cases they've been disbanded for being filled with Nazis, LARPers, and Crazies who wouldn't pass joining the national guard or Army

>>64678272
I'm against the state having a monopoly on violence

>>64678272
>Do the State Guards of individual states have any meaningful presence and role, or is it better to let things be handled by state national guard units?
Better for whom? State guard/militia was the standard since colonial times until the national guard was created by the federal government. The feds offered money, but with the caveat that they could federalize the force. This was done to strip states of paramilitary forces and thereby their sovereignty.

>>64678949
It's why I hate Lincoln, and I really fucking hate Wilson.
Both managed to destroy America's mission statement

>>64678272
>Do the State Guards of individual states have any meaningful presence and role
Only with Disaster Relief and Civil Affairs

>>64678272
In just world they'd be used for lethal crime suppression in urban areas