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I don’t know. AI Overview - “Approximately 3.3% of Australians (roughly 1 in 30 people) hold a valid firearms license. While total civilian gun numbers have grown past 4 million due to population increases, individual license holders own an average of more than four firearms each, meaning a...

Yes. That’s part of what tax money is for in the United States. I protected my child, when she was still living under my roof, using non-lethal means.

The point is that a shotgun blast aimed in the sky protected him from two intruders. (In the movie, the intruders were his son and his basketball coach, neither of whom he recognized.) I worked with police officers from time to time for over 30 years. I’ve had the discussion with many of them.

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One of the movie’s main characters, Shooter, fires a shotgun from a place of concealment as a warning and shouts, “Identify!” He wasn’t aiming at anyone. Not to harm a human being.

I’ve addressed this recently in another thread.

I said that no one knows what happened to Cornelius and the others. There are no extant records outside of scripture to refer to for them. In other threads I’ve discussed extensively what happened in general to persons in that position, drawing also from the writings of the Ante Nicene Church...

You’re in luck then. Hunting and self-defense against animals, but I could see a scenario for using them in self-defense against humans. Have you ever watched the movie [Hoosiers? Yes. I wouldn’t shoot at anyone in self-defense.

Yes, but you’ve said that your opinions aren’t based on Christian arguments. Your non-Christian / anti-Christian arguments aren’t going to persuade me. No.

If you review this thread, or search my posts in others, you will find that I have. @RLT63 and I discussed it in this thread just a couple of days ago. I’ve just spent several weeks addressing the issue of Christian soldiers serving in the Roman army.

Around 1 in 3. What is the figure in Australia @markalan?

You’ve misstated what I’ve said. You also think Paul is wrong. Since my position is his, and you think it is silly, you think Paul is silly. Which I think is anti-Christian. Guns. But I also have butter knives.

I haven’t ignored the centurions. I’ve addressed it in this thread as well as in other threads on this forum.

I took @markalan seriously. You didn’t?

What percentage of US adults own a gun? Do you know? It doesn’t have to be. But even if it were, I’m prepared for it, just as the earliest followers of Jesus were. Go back to the example that @Debp gave. See post #64.

In the scenario that’s been presented to me it was asserted that one must use a weapon to prevent innocent school children from being harmed. It has been presented as a moral issue. How are you going to use a gun to prevent innocent school children from being harmed - assuming that it is a...

It’s not the business of Jesus, the apostles, and the followers of Jesus. That’s not what you said earlier.

Then let’s put the question to you that @markalan put to me. How are you going to prevent it?

No. Not to kill someone. It wasn’t a trick reply. Would you loan me your gun?

I would ask to borrow your gun.