So I am to take it that Lionel Spruill does not lock his door at night and trusts God to keep him and his family safe.
It’s always possible.
For about three years I was with a church in Omaha where the pastor had been stalked by a weird person, and Nebraska has church choice on arms bearing. Anyhow, they chose to institute guards. As the band pianist, I kidded about keeping a rifle under the piano (didn’t actually do it though).
We never had a stalker incident. However something weird happened when I moved from Nebraska to Florida. A petty dispute arose about an agreement to help me clean up my apartment, and the pastor not only berated me that the situation was worse than he imagined but also declared that I wouldn’t “destroy him.” And he proposed doing something unbiblical. Whoa... things didn’t have to get all drama queen like that. I was heartbroken at first to part like that, but later thought the good Lord was looking out for me.
I am just meaning to suggest that there may be deeper factors afoot in a church that has a penchant for going armed — it’s seldom if ever that something untoward happens literally out of the blue for no ultimate reason. Christ is real, and generally will protect His own unless it is for a martyrdom.
But as far as secular policy — keep governments out of it.