I can only talk from experience here. I had to draw a pistol once to defend my mother and sister in our home after an earthquake. No power, phones, electricity, cell phones were still decades in the future. 50 yards from my house was the emergency command post of the Los Angeles Police Department with over 2 dozen officers on duty and still an idiot tried to rob our house. He froze and my mother screamed out the front window and officers came running. I'm not sure if I would of shot him but it stopped and we did not have to find out. Now if neighbors are starving I keep extra in the living room area in white buckets. I have wrestled with the question "Am I my brothers keeper?" and stock some for just that purpose. That bucket of food may be the bolt of lightning that gets them to let Jesus final speak to them....I hope I made sense here. I would rather be an instrument to aid in them being saved than arbitrarily execute them.
