Justin Fung asks, "Who would Jesus shoot?" in response to a Jan. 20 BBC story about a military manufacturer who imprints Bible verse references on its gun sights.

The BBC reports that  John 8:12 is one of the refences used: "Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, 'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”'

At the Sojourners magazine web site, Fung writes, "It’s absolutely mind-boggling to me that carved onto weapons of war are words of truth and peace — words from a man who embodied and heralded a kingdom characterized by peace, and from a man who announced an alternative to empire and spoke of faith, hope, joy, gentleness, goodness, and peace. How in the heck do these things go together?!”

We at liveforpeace.org, can’t figure this out either. As Fung asks, have we learned nothing from the Crusades, the Inquisition, etc.?