[FastCoyote]

“Ampu, I must say I am shocked by your support of cold blooded murder.

A cheap pistol that was smuggled into prison to try to make the mob think twice about cold blooded murder does not in any way mitigate the circumstances in which Joseph Smith was indeed murdered.”

Actually, it was a 6 barrel revolver smuggled to him, no doubt in hope that the Mormon militia General Joseph Smith commanded would come to his rescue. So, it is quite possible the gentile mob merely short circuited the Mormon militia mob from killing the jailers and setting off a seccessionary mini-war.

[DelphiUser]

Actually, it was a 6 barrel revolver smuggled to him, no doubt in hope that the Mormon militia General Joseph Smith commanded would come to his rescue. So, it is quite possible the gentile mob merely short circuited the Mormon militia mob from killing the jailers and setting off a seccessionary mini-war.

Your logic escapes me, Joseph Smith had just prophesied his own death, yet now he is going to use a pepperbox to hold the 200 or so armed men off until the militia he ordered not to come, came? and what miniwar, if JS had wanted a war, all he had to do was arrest the people who came to arrest him in Nauvoo, he definatly had the upper hand htere, but that is not what the lord wanted. Josph's testimony had to be selaed by his own blood.
Heb. 9: 16-17

16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

Your assumptions here as in other places leaves much to be desired by a logical mind.