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What Does the 2nd Amendment Say? — Civics 101: A Podcast

I found this very interesting.

Alexandra Filindra: In the Civil War, the militia showed how badly trained there were. There were constantly brawling, and they weren't working with each other from different states because they didn't have any contact. They had no organizational training, [00:12:30] and they were drunk.

Nick Capodice: And a group of officers from the New York State militia who saw how terribly the militia had performed in the Civil War, devoted themselves to the task of training them, specifically training them how to shoot better records from the union estimated that its troops fired about 1000 rifle shots for each Confederate soldier hit.

Hannah McCarthy: So they weren't just ineffective. They were also, I would assume, costing a lot of money.