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Board Presentation Final
Board Presentation Final
Whereas: The findings listed under this Title; Section 146.14 include:
“Because of the ever present possibility of the occurrence of disasters of
unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from enemy attack,
sabotage or other hostile action, resource shortage, or from fire, flood,
earthquake, or other natural causes, and in order to insure that
preparations of the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions will be
adequate to deal with such emergencies, and generally to provide for the
common defense and to protect the public peace, health, and safety, and
to preserve the lives and property and economic well-being of the people
of the Commonwealth, it is hereby found and declared to be necessary and
to be the purpose of this chapter:
“That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained
to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; that
standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to
liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict
subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.”