What's the deal with the gun?

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Ok, what exactly is the significance of the question of whether or not Joseph 
Smith had a gun on him when he died? Why does anyone care? What did I miss? 

Regardless of *why* he was in jail (which I could see having some relevance) 
the fact that he grabbed a gun and shot back when a lynch mob attacked him can 
hardly be used to throw any more bad light on him. I don't blame him, and I can 
confidently state that I would have done the same thing. Is there anyone on the 
list who wouldn't? 

'If one comes to kill you, rise and kill him first.'
 -- The Talmud, Tractate Berachos; The Soncino Edition, London 1990, p. 62b.


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Random thought for the moment:

    A man does not insist on physical beauty in a woman who builds up
    his morale. After a while he realizes that she is beautiful--he
    just hadn't noticed it at first.
           -- Notebooks of Lazarus Long in  Time Enough for Love

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