Wasn't Jesus supposed to be like, a pacifist? I also vaguely remember some bible verses talking about meekness and acting with kindness towards others, even your enemies.
But I guess that rhetoric doesn't fly with the "alpha male" crowd who's just itching for any excuse to shoot someone.
The issue is that they don't care. They don't care if the Bible says anything at all about the subject their on about or even if it contradicts them. What the Bible actually says is irrelevant to them, it's only what their glorious leaders pastors say it says matters.
The root of faith is authoritarianism, not any branch of morality or reverence or regard for history or their mythology.
I blame cowboys. More specifically, the old western movies. The good guys were just living their lives however they wanted without any gub'ment telling them what to do, and when bad guys showed up, you just blasted them.
I'm pretty sure, in reality, it was a pretty terrible time to be alive, but the movies make it sound like a libertarian utopia.