citizenal
Living in Paradise
Guns are made to kill. That kinda edges 'em over to the evil side.Anyone who owns a gun can't call themselves a Christian. Jesus wouldn't have approved of a killing machine. Well, except a cross.
The right to defend oneself and the duty to come to the aide of others, is not denied to Christians. A gun is only a tool. How it is used makes it good or evil.
Guns can kill, but they are only tools. As such, they have no will or intent of their own. Without will and intent, there can be no evil. Therefore, to conclude that guns are on any side is wrong.
From the food for thought department! If guns truly are evil, then they should be banned altogether both to Citizens and Governments alike. Personally, if I had to choose between one or the other, I would permit citizens to have guns and ban them from anyone connected with government. Granted, this would not be an ideal situation, but is the lessor of two evils because evil tools in the hands of governments have the potential for the greater harm. To put this in another way, if only citizens had guns and government had none, we would all enjoy the luxury of a government which would not violate our rights or disobey the rules we have established for it; an ideal which no longer exists in the world today, especially in the United States.