Chris Christie, the perpetually aggrieved former New Jersey governor, decided to grace ABC’s This Week with yet another swipe at Donald Trump, declaring that the president knows nothing about religion and labeling his criticisms of Pope Leo as gross. For those blissfully unaware, this stems from Trump’s recent pushback against the Pope’s eyebrow-raising comments on gun control—Leo had waded into the fray by suggesting that arms traffickers are complicit in crimes against humanity, a thinly veiled shot at American gun owners and the Second Amendment. Christie, ever the establishment RINO, couldn’t resist piling on, framing Trump’s defense of 2A rights as some kind of theological felony. It’s classic Christie: big on bluster, short on self-awareness, especially coming from a guy whose own record on guns is about as conservative as a Newark street corner.

But let’s peel back the sanctimonious layers here. Trump’s attacks weren’t some unhinged rant; they were a pointed reminder that the Vatican—safely ensconced behind Swiss Guard rifles—has no business lecturing law-abiding Americans on self-defense while ignoring the bloody reality of disarmament in places like Europe, where knife crime and terror attacks thrive unchecked. Christie’s pearl-clutching ignores the deeper context: Popes have meddled in politics before (remember John Paul II’s Cold War heroism?), but Leo’s gun grabs smack of progressive globalism, aligning with Biden-era ATF overreach and the same elite mindset that wants to render the Second Amendment a relic. Trump, for all his brashness, gets religion right in the American sense—rooted in the Founders’ biblical view of individual liberty as God-given, not government-granted. Christie’s critique? Just sour grapes from a failed presidential hopeful who’s more interested in cable hits than constitutional fidelity.

For the 2A community, this is a flashing red light: when even pro-gun Republicans like Christie genuflect to papal pronouncements over the Bill of Rights, it signals the cultural rot eating at our defenses. Trump’s willingness to clap back protects the line between faith and fiat, reminding us that true religious freedom includes the right to bear arms against tyranny—spiritual or otherwise. As the midterms loom, 2A warriors should rally behind fighters who prioritize the Constitution over cocktail-party piety; Christie’s just noise in the echo chamber of irrelevance.