On his calls for gun control on a personal level rather than a legal level
Ultimately, we’ll all make the decision what we will do, whether we’ll own a lethal weapon and use it or not. We’ve had a long discussion in this country ”” decades-long ”” on gun control, that is government gun control. For me, this is a question of self-control regardless of what the law may allow me to do. I appeal to a higher law. … I’ve said publicly, that in our respecting of the Second Amendment, we have to be very careful we don’t break the second commandment, which is the commandment against idolatry. We can set up our own idolatry when we declare ourselves the arbiters of right and wrong, and especially, of the value of a human life.
I don’t own a gun. That being said, it seems clear to me that civil order is breaking down in the United States and violence and ethnic strife is increasing, being abetted and encouraged primarily by government policies that are intentionally inflaming the situation for political gain. So I believe people are being prudent to arm themselves in this day and age.
All you need to do is watch Youtube videos of the L.A. riots in the early Nineties, and see how people were on their own–especially how the Korean community was targeted for violence and how they had to defend themselves from attack because the police refused to. Fortunately they had guns and most Korean males, because of mandatory military service in Korea, knew how to use them to defend themselves, their families and their stores, and did so. That has always stuck in my head as to the basic lawless nature of American urban areas that is always lurking just underneath the surface. It has gotten much worse across the country since then, especially in the past couple of years. Again, I think it is being actively encouraged by the present administration, primarily to create racial grievances and, ironically, to call for “gun control.”