Also the author should have referenced the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church, paragraph 401, which authorizes armed resistance as a last resort against “manifest, long-standing tyranny which would do great damage to fundamental personal rights and dangerous harm to the common good of the country”. (sort of like the 1.72 billion babies that have been aborted worldwide in the past 40 years. Or like the Obama Administration)
I guess there are various interpretations of
Luke 22:36
He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. But to my mind the disciples were being instructed to prepare to defend themselves with arms ...against the impending Roman persecution...
http://www.usccb.org/news/2012/12-219.cfm
...we reiterate our call made in 2000, in our statement, Responsibility, Rehabilitation and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice, for all Americans, especially legislators, to:
1.Support measures that control the sale and use of firearms
2.Support measures that make guns safer (especially efforts that prevent their unsupervised use by children and anyone other than the owner)
3.Call for sensible regulations of handguns
4.Support legislative efforts that seek to protect society from the violence associated with easy access to deadly weapons including assault weapons
5.Make a serious commitment to confront the pervasive role of addiction and mental illness in crime...