I belong to a faith that has decided guns will be prohibited from its meetinghouses. Many of the members of this church are staunch gun advocates, and are not comfortable with the new policy.
As I thought on this the other day, it occurred to me that our first modern-day prophet, Joseph Smith, was the victim of a band of gun owners. They came to the jail he was being held in, and killed him.
A band of gun owners.
And, I would quite imagine, what they did, they thought was right. They were just administering their brand of justice. Now, therein lies the danger. The gun becomes a badge. Those who wear it, consider themselves administrators of justice. A thousand sheriffs, and they come with different interpretations of who the bad guys are.
To some, Joseph Smith was the bad guy. So, they shot him.
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