Second Amendment?

A Massachusetts man posted this comment to a news article on Monday:

"a rifle ... no longer allows a private citizen parity with the authorities like it was centuries ago. Stars wars , drones , and nano technology mean the citizen of today is hopelessly out-gunned except of course for Flash Gordon."

The forefathers were thinking of their time. The future, too, but they would not have comprehended the awesome firepower now maintained by our governments.

Just look at the firepower maintained right here in McHenry County, from MARV on down. What citizen would have a chance to protect himself (and us) against Government?

Yet, that's what the Second Amendment is for. The right to keep and bear arms (not "to bare" arms, as one poster wrote elsewhere last week).

The Second Amendment? "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." That was as written by Congress at the time. When I read that, I thought two fewer comments would make it more to my liking. Take out the comma after militia, and get rid of the one after arms.

And then I found this on Wikipedia.com:

"As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Well, what do you know about that?