You don’t see a lot of this in most good Protestant denominations where it’s heavily encouraged to actually read your own Bible regularly. A congregation reading their Bible knows this is freaking unbiblical or at least not found anywhere in scripture. Peace is great and James and Matthew are two books specifically that mention peacemakers are blessed and will raise a harvest of righteousness.. but simply owning a weapon does not encourage war or sin. Nehemiah (literally a book about building a wall to keep out the hostiles) had his men stand guard constantly at the wall with swords while it was being rebuilt. They weren’t looking for war, but there was no nonsense about everyone dropping their weapons and singing kumbaya.

Sorry to any Catholics in this thread, but my opinion is the more you study the Bible, the more you realize the pope and a lot of Catholicism contains statements and creeds that just aren’t supported by scripture. I understand tradition is important too, but if the freaking Word of God doesn’t back up your claims, I’m going to have a hard time believing them based only on tradition alone.