What does Judaism say about guns — or, to be more accurate, about any dangerous weapon or situation?
The Torah is not terribly helpful here — other than the mitzvah (commandment) of making sure that the roof of your house has a parapet in order to prevent someone from falling off (Deuteronomy 22:8). In other words, you have to make sure that you do all that you can to eliminate household dangers.
Neither are the books of the prophets terribly helpful — other than the good old messianic “beat their swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks” thing, which would seem to endorse a kind of generalized pacifism.
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