Does the Bible prohibit gun control or promote gun control? The Bible does not prohibit gun control. The right to bear arms stems from the Second Amendment to our Constitution, not the Bible, which states otherwise. Therefore, the right to bear arms is Constitutional, not Biblical. As societies change, so do the applicability of man-made laws. The Constitutional right to bear arms was intended for a society with neither a standing army nor police force and whose citizens needed guns to hunt for food and to deter invasion. Today, America has a standing army, layers of police force and few if any of its citizens have to hunt with guns for subsistence. Yet, thanks to a Biblical adherence to a 230-year old, man-made law, our country is now flooded with more guns than adults, 30,000 are shot to death every year, including by criminals using assault machine guns that even the police do not carry. Today's gun laws in America have more to do with the power and the politicians' fear of the gun lobby and the adherence of its members to a sport than with logic, the intent of the Constitutional right to bear arms or the Bible.
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