defense of others, self defense

DC One-Upping “Gun-Free” Zones

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Apparently these aren’t working well enough in Washington, DC.

So now they’re going to…

Yep, “murder free zones.”

The court challenges should be fun, as some idiots decide this is an unconstitutional endorsement of Judeo-Christian beliefs; never mind that they’re going to be posted by a non-governmental non-profit group.

If signs actually do any good (suuurre…) I’d suggest something like this:

IF YOU TRY TO
MURDER
SOMEONE IT IS
LEGAL
FOR THEM TO
KILL
YOU FIRST
Maybe that would get someone to pause for a second or two. Perhaps. For those who can still read.

Regarding the Biblical text: I’m no linguist, but some folks better at ancient languages than I have told me that “Thou shalt not kill” is a mistranslation. Apparently it should read “Thou shalt not murder,” because G-d and the ancient Jews knew the difference between murder and justifiable homicide (self defense), and had separate terms for each.

I’ve always wondered since if that mistranslation was deliberate on the part of religious and secular authorities who wanted to blur the difference, to deter peasants and other downtrodden killing tax collectors and other authoritarian thugs.

 

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2 thoughts on “DC One-Upping “Gun-Free” Zones”

  1. I’m no linguist, but looking at the question logically:

    – Murder.
    – Self-defense killing.
    – Killing during war or combat.
    – Execution of criminals.

    Three of those four are allowed, and sometimes even encouraged or required.

    “Thou shalt not kill” must therefore be an over-broad translation. “Thou shalt not murder” is logically more accurate.

  2. Bingo Bear, you’ve nailed it. It does NOT say do not kill, it says do not murder.

    Here are a couple of fairly short interesting explanations

    https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3220/jewish/The-Value-of-Life.htm

    An additional interesting note for me, is by the same standards, we shouldn’t be performing experimental medical injections on innocent children not at risk of covid to save someone else as per the propaganda.

    https://steinsaltz.org/daf/sanhedrin72/

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