From:	Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: guns, guns, guns...
Date:	Tue, 11 Apr 1995 14:04:08 -0400

On Tue, 11 Apr 1995, Jani Fikouras wrote:

> > The fact that there are more guns in the USA than people keeps
> > the government from gettin' too uppity. :)

> This is not meant as an anti-american flame, but seriously do you
> guys really belive that ? I mean that you have to protect yourselves
> from your own government? It sounds kinda sad to me...

You forget that we already have. This country was *founded* on
protecting ourselves from our parent government (namely Great Britain).
The founders of this country knew what they had to fight against, and so
in order to keep it from happening to the people again, they built all of
these ideas into the constitution to keep the government in check and
make sure that the power lay in the hands of the people. It's not that
we necessarily see the government as a threat (well... ;) ), but that it
is one of the principles that this country was founded on.

Marc (Eeeek! I almost sound...patriotic! I think I'm gonna be sick.)