Governments murder far more of their own citizens than any other force, 262 million since 1900.
It would be far more honest for the Vatican to talk about disarming governments than talking about disarming citizens.
Looks like the all too common lame brained “blame the weapon” stance. Most of the things that such weapons in private hands are used to do, never hit the news at all because they are boringly peaceful. While it is a laudable Christian “thang” to be wary of using items through which Satan poses temptations to sin, in virtually all cases of murderous use, the gun did not tempt an otherwise innocent minded bearer to commit the murder. Rather the bearer got murder on his mind first, THEN got the gun to carry it out. And hardly any ban can make this significantly harder; it can only make it harder for honest citizens to keep THEIR guns to defend themselves.
In a nutshell this is plain wrong headed.