The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Hello, -"You make it sound like the people of this country can do no wrong but we are as inherently bad and flawed as the people in government" We live in a democracy, do we not? In this democracy, the government can not be a ruling, ultimate party, with complete sovereignty…In this democracy, the PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER, because regardless of "wrong" they may do, it is only fair to allow the people to have power. -"Between 1979 and 2001, gunfire killed 90,000 children and teens in America" Well I am sure that we are both very sorry to hear that, and we do have regulations for owning a gun…but criminals do not seem to care what the law says…and thus it would probably make little difference without the right to bear arms. -"Furthermore, countries like England that have far more gun control laws suffer less gun related deaths and last time I checked their government has not fallen into a state of tyranny." England WAS in a state of tyranny, and the 13 colonies would not have escaped it, IF THEY DID NOT HAVE GUNS. Where would every single one of us, in America, be…if those regular citizens did not own guns? Answer me that. I will also refer to one of the most horrific events in the history of mankind, the holocaust and the events leading up to it, the following is from a biography of Adolf Hitler: "Of the 380,000 Jews crowded into the Warsaw ghetto, all but 70,000 had been deported to the killing centers in an operation devoid of resistance. By this time, however, those left behind had come to the realization that deportation meant death. With this in mind, Jewish political parties within the ghetto finally resolved their differences and banded together to resist further shipments with force.... At three in the morning of April 9, 1943, more than 2000 Waffen SS infantryman — accompanied by tanks, flame throwers and dynamite squads — invaded the ghetto, expecting an easy conquest, only to be met by determined fire from 1500 fighters armed with weapons smuggled into the ghetto over a long period: several light machine guns, hand grenades, a hundred or so rifles and carbines, several hundred pistols and revolvers, and Molotov cocktails. Himmler had expected the action to take three days but by nightfall his forces had to withdraw. The one-sided battle continued day after day to the bewilderment of the SS commander, General Jï¿½rgen Stroop, who could not understand why ‘this trash and subhumanity' refused to abandon a hopeless cause. He reported that, although his men had initially captured ‘considerable numbers of Jews, who are cowards by nature,' it was becoming more and more difficult. ‘Over and over again new battle groups consisting of twenty or thirty Jewish men, accompanied by a corresponding number of women, kindled new resistance.' The women, he noted, had the disconcerting habit of suddenly hurling grenades they had hidden in their bloomers...." Would you wish to take the right to bear arms from them? Do you see now, there have been many instances "in the course of human events" in which it has served the people very well to have fire-arms in revolting against the government. If EVERY Jew had had a gun in Germany, or at least many more of them, the holocaust might never have happened. Governments are very capable of doing horrific things when their citizens do not have guns with which to fight back. IN the instance of the several other Jews, who did not have guns, and thus could not revolt, they were caught in a situation, in which the SS (the government) had guns, and they didn't, and as a consequence went to the holocaust. But then again, maybe you agree with Hitler: "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing" -Adolf Hitler An insane lunatic, a complete raving hateful, lunatic, an evil genius, who was well aware of the people's ability to riot, when owning fire-arms, and worked against it, being the authoritarian, Nazi ruler that he was. "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." -Thomas Jefferson