The guy who shot the last Pope...

...was an Islamic fundamentalist extremist from Turkey named Mehmet Ali Agca.
The Pope's currently scheduled to travel to Turkey. What do you think the odds are about the nationality of the guy who's going to shoot this Pope?
The Pope noted in his address: "Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul. To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death..."

Those 'excitable people' chanting in the streets are not reasonable people. To convince an unreasonable soul, you do need "a strong arm, weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death..." If you don't have any, I'd advise you to get some.

But I bet the Swiss Guard are unhappy about becoming bullet-catchers for the Kraut Pope...