US Pastor encourages his congregation to carry guns? Whaaat?

Just read this here.

“Pastor Ken Pagano told parishioners to bring their unloaded guns to New Bethel Church in Louisville for a service celebrating the right to bear arms.”

”“We are wanting to send a message that there are legal, civil, intelligent and law-abiding citizens who also own guns,” Mr Pagano told the congregation.”

Apparently this pastor thinks that people have a right to be safe and hence, carry guns around. I’m just wondering how in the world people can do this? This guy believes that the more people carry guns around, the safer people will be. It’s behaviour like this which reminds me why there’s still so much violence around..

Should people carry guns to keep them safe? Or should we have laws to ban guns altogether? I’m more for the latter (in my head, prevention is better than cure).