I seriously doubt the US bishops would touch this with a ten-foot pole. I've had some of my right-wing Republican Catholic relatives urge me to get a gun for protection. I'm not one to argue with a brick wall, so I don't say that in my area, most crime consists of burglaries in which guns and drugs are stolen. I wouldn't say to them that if someone killed me in a robbery, I might just be in a better place than this.