You really have to wonder at the mindset of those who want to ban tools of defense in the face of an ideological attack. Is it a product of conditioning, or a congenital defect that causes a skewed thought process?

I mean... take guns away and everyone will magically make nice?? Really?? That's what you believe?

Are you not aware that most of the worst genocides and conquests in human history occurred before the invention of gunpowder? Do you not realize this is how Islam has been spread, steadily, for 1,400 years??

The entire Middle East was once under Christian rule, Lebanon as recently as the 1980s. Afghanistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia were once Buddhist. Pakistan was once Hindu?

How do you think these countries became Islamic? Because abstaining from pork was just an awesome selling point?