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 FIRSTMaybe 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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