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truth is truth. Only by use of force (guns) can a government be established and maintained. The question is whether those guns will be used to create a tyranny or a free democracy.

Christ also did not come to earth to bring peace. He came to bring salvation.

" “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. " - Matthew 10:34 (this "sword" refers to the power of His words. He knew He would cause strife and even violence upon Christians.)
A Christian is not expected by Christ to be a pacifist enslaved by any tyrant with a gun.
Should we tell the police to disarm and sit down and let themselves be shot when faced with an armed criminal? Can those police not be Christian?_
For a man to be free he must be able to defend himself. Christ commanded his disciples to carry swords for just such a purpose, to defend themselves.
"Then He said to them, “But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.”-- Luke 22:36 (this "sword" IS a real sword intended to be used by disciples to defend themselves)

Mao stated that "All political power comes from the barrel of a gun". Mao was simply restating what Jefferson had said 150 years before.
Peace does not exist by laying down arms. That is the most contempible lie that has been foisted upon the US people since the socialist overtook academia, the schools and the media.
Our country was founded on the idea that good men must fight for their principles. otherwise evil tyrants will always force men into slavery.
You can use guns to create a communist dictatorship or you can use guns to establish a democracy.
Either way you must be prepared to fight, kill or be killed.
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world." -- Abraham Lincoln
Here do some reading and learn what the school system has censored from modern history books with the objective of you submitting yourself to the will of the state without a fight;
"It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end." --Thomas Jefferson to Francois D'Ivernois, 1795. ME 9:300
"By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy." --Thomas Jefferson to Edmond C. Genet, 1793. ME 9:136
"It should take more to make peace than to prevent war. The sword once drawn, full justice must be done. 'Indemnification for the past and security for the future,' should be painted on our banners." --Thomas Jefferson to Robert Wright, 1812. ME 13:184
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787.
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173

Of course Mao was right stating political power comes from guns. It is an obvious irrefutable statement of fact. Mao didn't just invent the idea.
What matters is whether those guns will be used to liberate a people (Jefferson) or enslave them (Mao, Stalin, all socialists)