Have you ever fought a spiritual battle?  Guns don't work there.

My husband and I didn't grow up with guns.  We don't have them.

Physical violence is not a good answer.  I think guns give you false confidence in yourself.

Every man is not the same some are farmers and some are intellectuals and some are soldiers. 

STOP lumping all people into a certain ideology.

Look don't think I am naive.  I have had experiences that have dealt with how messed up the police department, hospitals, and medical professionals can be.  Guns did not get me out of the situations.  God did!  My trust in God did.  Sharpen the right weapons people.  I think the devil has you extremely distracted.

Christianity’s religious imperative:

Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P.1225-1274 A.D.

defense of innocent life

If necessary, it is moral to kill an aggressor

in defense of innocent life

“…the act of self-defense may have two effects, one is the saving of one’s life, the other is the slaying of the aggressor. Therefore this act, since one’s intention is to save one’s own life, is not unlawful, seeing that it is natural to everything to keep itself in ‘being,’ as far as possible. And yet, though proceeding from a good intention, an act may be rendered unlawful, if it be out of proportion to the end. Wherefore if a man, in self-defense, uses more than necessary violence, it will be unlawful: whereas if he repel force with moderation his defense will be lawful, because according to the jurists [Cap. Significasti, De Homicid. volunt. vel casual.], ‘it is lawful to repel force by force, provided one does not exceed the limits of a blameless defense.’ Nor is it necessary for salvation that a man omit the act of moderate self-defense in order to avoid killing the other man, since one is bound to take more care of one's own life than of another's.”

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Q. 64 murder, Article 7

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3064.htm

Have you ever seen a momma bear?  Trust me if anyone does anything to my children they would wish I had had a gun…

And I know people do not seem to believe in the active presence of Guardian Angels, but I do and I have experienced many things that they have done for me.

Fear powers the enemy and fear makes the victim easy to attack.  Guns do not change that.

To be clear I am fine with people having guns and doing what they think they should do, I am just expressing that it might not be the same for all.

And as for this topic.  I really don't know what to do with it.  I personally think it is a trick of the devil to get people to justify their hatred for some group.  You can despise what people without Faith do and you can try to help them see the Truth, but these people are not people I can talk to face to face.  It presents like some kind of boogeyman.

I know that my view on this topic does not fit the status quo here, so I just prefer to leave it to the people who understand it better and can do something about it, hopefully what they are inspired to do by God.  God has His reasons for everything.

Yes to show us how to fight ourself, so we can be with God forever.  The biggest hinderence to Salvation is ourself.

If the bad guys come to my door, the guns come out first, if they want to reason when it's aimed at their head, fine; if not,  I will pray for them as they bleed out.  My order is the opposite of yours. It is gun first, reason second (maybe), and pray third.  Hopefully your husband's order is the same as mine.

You're either a liar or ignorant. The aforementioned verses are not about fighting ourselves, rather, it's about taking up arms and physically defending yourself, and wiping out God's enemies with His command and approbation. Read the chapters apropos to those verses. There are other verses in the Bible that refer to fighting ourselves and guarding against the flesh in order to save our souls, but that's not the context of the verses that I posted. You're deceitfully or ignorantly conflating both.