I'll admit to not having read your post above in its entirety.
Got to the 'other cheek' part and had to stop.
That whole concept always struck me as something disturbingly similar to an unfunded mandate.
Especially from one who supposedly kicked ass and took names amongst the moneychanger set.
If that's blasphemous/heretical/etc then so be it.
If whatever God is has a problem with good people protecting their loved ones and their work, or with defensive martial acts against evil bastards raping our Nation, then please mark me down as firmly in the 'heathen' column.
Dietrich Boenhoffer started out as a pacifist but later was involved in plot to kill Hitler. He paid with his life just days before his prison camp was liberated.
I don’t think we have risen yet to the level of Hitler or Stalin purges.
But I am prepared.