Actually the issue is not gun control per-say.
It is the logical foundation behind the practise of christians essentially worshipping guns more than the teaching of Jesus.
I think that you are being unfairly harsh in your judgement. Of course nothing and nobody is to be worshipped other than God (the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). I keep hearing you say that guns are evil and should be banned and not used by Christians. I don't believe that. I firmly believe that there is nothing inherently anti-Christian in a gun, a knife, a spear, a rock, a rope, a car, a pen, tweezers, or conventional explosives. Every one of those things has good and holy uses. Every one of those things also could be used as an instrument in committing a sin. The objects are amoral. The hearts of the people who use them are where good and evil are manifested in using them. Is he or she hunting for food and preparing it, constructing a church building, transporting people to church, providing medical care, or some good thing, and doing so for good reasons? Then that person is blessed.
There is evil and there is sin.
But we who have the Holy Spirit within should have no choice in this matter.
God doesn't revoke the freedom of choice from His children. Spirit-filled Christians can and do make choices -- and sometimes wrong choices. 1 John 1:9 was written to Christians.
That said, even though your sentiments seem rather odd to me, I do agree with you in some respects. I would rather not carry a gun, even where the law allows it. You see, even though I work in an area known for violent crime, and a gun would be an effective deterrent and method of stopping a crime in progress against me, I'm not willing to use such deadly force if I have any better alternative. I believe that I do, in Psalm 91. I simply claim God's angelic protection. After all, I'm doing His work, and my work now is publishing and proclaiming the Good News about Jesus Christ. How could I do that at gunpoint? I really could not. Guns work by instilling fear into people. The only good fear is the fear of God. I refuse to use the fear of a gun to protect me in doing God's work. On the other hand, the government does not bear its swords in vain, and there was a time when I took up arms in the U. S. Navy to defend our constitution and our country. I could have and would have fired deadly weapons in the line of duty in good conscience. Thank God that I never had to.
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