"W P Dixon" wrote in message
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Well Tien,
The Second Amendment was written in order to keep the government in
check. The power of the people was meant to be stronger than the power of
the federal government.

I believe that you are quite correct. Unfortunately, it was written at a
time when the weapons possessed by the government were more or less similar
to the weapons possessed by the people (muskets, horses, wagons). The 2nd
amendment loses some of its relevancy for that purpose today, since the
People's assault rifles, grenade launchers, and mortars now have to stack up
against the government's nuclear arsenal, air power, laser-guided bombs, and
the like.


Australia and Great Britain have enacted severe gun control laws , and
their crime rates have sky rocketed. Check out the numbers on numerous web
sites...it's amazing!


Where do you get this stuff?
Would you please post the URLs of some of these sites showing the
sky-rocketing crime rates in Australia.