text: It's clear to me that Jesus teaching said we reach out to help others.   Finding a way to slow the killing of our wives, husbands and children should be a part of our faith.   There's a lot of ways to try to help.
  
  As to gun laws, I've never suggested that private citizens can't own guns.   My concern is that we don't become a nation that chooses deadly force as a civilized way to settle disputes.    We seem to have gotten caught in an arms race with weapons accessable to civilians.   I wish that cycle would stop.
  
  There's a huge difference in killing power between weapons.   It is not solely the human being that determins the body count.   You can assume the killer will use what's available.   
  
  Jesus life spoke volume's about his attitude toward violence, (and his was a very violent world).   The early church did not use an armed militia.    *I never worry about my friends who have guns for hunting and family protection.  I was the exception, not the rule in rural Iowa.