This Pepperbox Pistol is the kind used by Mormon
"Prophet" Joseph Smith to try to kill people during his last moment
of life.
Smith discharged all six
barrels by reaching around a door and shooting blindly into a crowd without
knowing whom he was firing at.
"On
June 27, 1844, an armed mob with blackened faces stormed Carthage
Jail where Joseph and Hyrum were
being held.[265] Hyrum
Smith (Joseph Smith's brother), who was trying to secure the door, was killed
instantly with a shot to the face.[266] Smith
fired a pepper-box pistol,
then sprang for the window.[267]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith
Even if religious
"prophets" should use firearms to kill people in self-defense, Joseph
Smith knew his weapon could not have held back the mob pursuing him.
Instead of trying to kill
people, Smith would have improved his chances for survival had he not delayed
escape with futile attempts at armed resistance, but rather had chosen to lower
himself from the second story window in whose frame he was fatally shot while
preparing to leap.
By way of parallel, it is notable
that Jesus of Nazareth, when confronting capture by a hostile mob, eschewed the
possibility of escape through use of force, instead encouraging ever-zealous
Peter to put his drawn sword back in its sheath.
"By their fruits you
shall know them."
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"Mormonism Is Not
Christian and Founding Prophet, Joseph Smith, Was a Sexual Predator."
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