Zimmerman Trial

Without informed context, caution must be used when referring to statements that the reader might not know the background of.

For example, two modern-pop musicians called "Simon and Garfunkle" made up lyrics for the move The Graduate which, if heard or read with no context and no background, are, by default, irreligiously blasphemous:

"Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you can know,
Ho ho ho.

Heaven holds a place for those who pray,
Hey hey hey.

There might be many people who are not aware that the lyrics are meant to mock a church-going woman who prays in church yet spends her weekdays hypocritically committing adultery with a male college student.

But, being that many people might not know that background, it is inappropriate to sing those lyrics to those who do not know the context, lest the effect is ultimately to insidiously and damnably revile Jesus, Christians belonging to Jesus, praying to Jesus, qualifications for entrance into Heaven, and the church of Jesus Christ.

With that in mind, there was another movie with the title Magnum Force which starred Clint Eastwood and Hal Holbrook, a summary of which will prepare you the reader for elaboration on a recent nationally-publicized court case involving the two names (George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin) which you the reader just might never have heard of.

In the movie Magnum Force, lawyers of criminals were enabling big-name gangsters to get acquitted in court, and the city police chief (played by Hal Holbrook) did not like that.
So, he formed a secret vigilante-cops hit squad within his police department to search out and assassinate those acquitted bad guys who were "getting away with it," which assassinations police deputy Clint Eastwood was assigned to investigate.
Eventually, when alone in a squad car together, Holbrook asked Eastwood to join the vigilante cop squad, saying: "The system is broken. It doesn't work. Criminals are getting away scot free, and my hit squad is out to remedy that. Join us." To which Eastwood replied, "I hate the damm system, but until something better comes along, we have to abide by the law. How far do you plan to take this, killing someone for jaywalking?"
Then, predictably, in the movie, movie hero Eastwood ended up executing the hit-squad motorcycle cops one by one who were trying to murder him for not joining them, and Holbrook himself by blown up by a time-delayed bomb triggered by Eastwood in a squad car Holbrook was escaping in, which bomb Holbrook had meant to be used to eliminate non-cooperative Eastwood.

Now, we get to the court case of pistol-armed Neighborhood-Watch vigilante George Zimmerman who, one night, stalked a non-pistol-armed younger teen named Trayvon Martin, who arguably was loitering past curfew-like hours in the dark wee hours of the morning shortly after midnight.

Perhaps I can illustrate what happened that night by comparing it to a checkers game.

Assume that non-firearmed black-singular-checker Martin had made one upward move from the bottom of the checkerboard to the upper left of the checkerboard, and firearm-possessing red-double-checkered Zimmerman (being a king who could move up or down as king) made one downward move from the top of the checkerboard to the lower right of the checkerboard. The singular black Martin checker advanced another move upward to the red Zimmerman king, and a 911 call was made to the checkermaster by king-checker Zimmerman. The 911 boss told the red Zimmerman king to stand down, to move aside, and let the referees consider whether then how to respond (if ever) to the singular black Martin checker advancing toward the upper left of the checkerboard. Zimmerman did that, moving his king one step to the side of the checkerboard. But instead of the singular black Martin checker continuing on toward the upper left of the checkerboard, the black Martin checker belligerently advanced to the red Zimmerman king which had gone off to the side of the checkerboard. Eventually, the single Martin checker placed himself right next to the red Zimmerman king.

Now, in checkers, that situation requires that whenever a checker has so set himself up like that, he MUST be jumped. Or, in this case, shot to death by the must-jump-him opponent.

Which is basically what happened that night. Trayvon Martin came back at standing off observer Zimmerman and starting beating Zimmerman up with non-relenting and increasingly-damaging fury after threatening to kill Zimmerman.

As with any type of lawlessness which a deviant person commits, why Trayvon Martin maliciously and suicidally incited homicide is a mystery. He should have been of a mindset to comply with the following Scriptural admonitions:

Proverbs 3:29 Do not plan evil against your neighbor who resides trustingly beside you.

Proverbs 3:30 Do not contend against a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm.

Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

It was reported on the network media that the court decided that Zimmerman was NOT guilty of second-degree murder (i.e. on-the-spot malicious intent to murder, in contrast to first-degree or malicious pre-meditated pre-planned murder, or third-degree murder - also known as manslaughter - which would be recklessly causing anyone at random to be murdered).

Now that Zimmerman has been acquitted (and is very non-likely to be arrested and convicted double-jeopardy-style on same-case charges of a "hate crime" or "child abuse") after a long, arduous, and by-now rather boring trial, and we know his capabilities of perhaps desiring to become a zealous border-patrol soldier assigned by the FBI or CIA to interfere and disrupt the Mexican drug-lords cartels, what is the best recommendation that we can currently give George?

How about:

Proverbs 17:12 Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly.

Some might mis-consider anyone killing anyone else "something they will go to Hell for" -- even if the someone killed is executed instead of murdered. For example, according to demented deviates and their patsy supporters, David will go to Hell for executing Goliath; Samuel for hewing Agag in pieces before the LORD according to a previous command of the Lord to do so; Joshua for annihilating the barbaric belligerent Canaanites who God ordered Joshua and Co. to annihilate; Jeremiah and Saint Peter for predicting the untimely or sudden death of heretics; even Jesus Himself for someday executing the armies of the beast and false prophet upon His return at Armageddon.

They, as slanderous misrepresentative blasphemers, might use the following verses as their invalid excuse:

Second Samuel 16:7 And Shimei said [to temporarily-ousted-David] as he cursed, "Begone, begone, you man of blood, you worthless fellow!
Second Samuel 16:8 The LORD has avenged upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the LORD has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your ruin is on you; for you are a man of blood."

David himself did not take revenge against reviler Shimei when David came to power, because now-scared Shimei had besought David and promised that he (himself) would grant Shimei (temporary) leniency:

Second Samuel 19:16 And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David;
18 and they crossed the ford to bring over the king's household, and to do his pleasure. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan,
19 and said to the king, "Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem; let not the king bear it in mind.
20 For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore, hey, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king."
21 Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?"
22 But David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?"
23 And the king said to Shimei, "You shall not die." And the king gave him his oath.

But on his deathbed, David told Solomon:

First Kings 2:8 And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim; but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.'
First Kings 2:9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for you are a wise man; you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol."

And Solomon arranged a potential eventual execution scenario against Shimei:

First Kings 2:42 the king sent and summoned Shimei, and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by the LORD, and solemnly admonish you, saying, 'Know for certain that on the day you go forth and go to any place whatever, you shall die'? And you said to me, 'What you say is good; I obey.'
44 The king also said to Shimei, "You know in your own heart all the evil that you did to David my father; so the LORD will bring back your evil upon your own head.
45 But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever."
46 Then the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

A classic application of what Jesus and His apostles were to instruct us about retaliation is what Solomon stated:

Proverbs 20:22 Do not say, "I will repay evil"; wait for the LORD, and He will help you.
Proverbs 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.
Proverbs 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Matthew 5:38 You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'
39 But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also;
40 and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well;
41 and if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
43 You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He makes his sun [or is it instead: sunlight?] rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the injust.

Romans 12:17 Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.
First Thessalonians 5:15 See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.
First Peter 3:9 Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing.

Reminds me of the case of churlish Nabal, when David restrained himself from taking retaliatory vengeance on non-cooperative reviler Nabal per Abigail's petition:

First Samuel 25:5 So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.
6 And thus you shall salute him: 'Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
7 I hear that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing, all the time they were in Carmel.
8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes; for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.'"
9 When David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David; and then they waited.
10 And Nabal answered David's servants, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who are breaking away from their masters.
11 Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who come from I do not know where?"
12 So David's young men turned away, and came back and told him all this.
13 And David said to his men, "Every man gird on his sword!" And every man of them put on his sword; David also put on his sword; and about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.
14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, "Hey, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed at them.
15 Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them;
16 they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
17 Now therefore know this and consider what you should do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is so ill-natured that one cannot speak to him."
18 Then Abigail hurried, and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on dOnkeys.
19 And she said to her young men, "Go on before me; hey, I come after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
20 And as she rode on the dunkey, and came down under cover of the mountain, hey, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.
21 Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good.
22 God do so to David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one who urinates against a wall."
23 When Abigail saw David, she hurried, and got off the dunkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed to the ground.
24 She fell at his feet and said, "Upon me alone, m'lord, be the guilt; please let your handmaid speak in your ears, and hear the words of your handmaid.
25 Let not m'lord regard this ill-natured fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I your handmaid did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
26 Now then, m'lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the LORD has restrained you from bloodguilt, and from taking vengeance with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
27 And now let this present which your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow m'lord.
28 Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid; for the LORD will certainly make m'lord a sure house, because m'lord is fighting the battles of the LORD; and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.
32 And David said to Abigail, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!
33 Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from avenging myself with my own hand!
34 For as surely as the LORD the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as anyone who urinates against a wall."
35 Then David received from her hand what she had brought him; and he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house; see, I have responded to your voice, and I have granted your petition."
36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, wow, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.
37 And in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
38 And about ten days later the LORD smote Nabal; and he died.
39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil; the LORD has returned the evil-doing of Nabal upon his own head." Then David sent and wooed Abigail, to make her his wife.
40 And when the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, "David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife."
41 And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground, and said, "Hey, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of m'lord."
42 And Abigail hurried [again!] and rose and mounted on an dOnkey, and her five maidens attended her; she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and both of them became his wives.

There are some who even misconstrue the following verse:

First Chronicles 28:3 But God said to me, 'You may not build a house for my name, for you are a warrior and have shed blood.'

What God meant by that is not that David was wrong or had sinned or was destined to be damned to Hell for shedding blood . . .but merely that David was not qualified as an architect, a building construction foreman, but instead trained as the Lord's executioner - much like our present day police, sheriff and military soldiers who are not trained as civil engineers nor heavy-equipment operators but rather authorized, within certain legal and legitimate parameters, to execute -- not merely in self-defense but also for the defense of those they have a duty to protect against life-threatening imposers of random genocide and lethal terrorism.

Keep in mind that "shed-blood"-executioner/part-time law-enforcement-officer-and-soldier David and others had direct permission from the Lord to kill, and thus (like James Bond 007) were "licensed to kill:"

Genesis 6:13 And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of ALL flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; hey, I will destroy them with? the earth."
Genesis 6:17 For hey, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall die [except Noah and Associates?].
Genesis 8:21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of humans, for the imagination of humanity's heart is evil from their youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done."
Genesis 9:11 "I establish my non-homogay-rainbow covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."
Genesis 9:15 "I will remember my non-homosodomy-rainbow-colors covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh."

Exodus 32:27 And he said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Put every man his sword on his side, and go here and there from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.' "

Deuteronomy 20:16 But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes (remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, full of imperialist Japs who supported suicide-bomber-kamakaze Jap aggressors who attacked Pearl Harbor)

Joshua 6:2 And the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have given into your hand Jericho, with its king and mighty men of valor.
Joshua 6:21 Then they utterly destroyed all in the city, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and asses, with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 8:26 For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. [and all indecently-half-naked vicious "native-american" anti-Christianity indians with their cultic pagan earth-and-buffalo-spirit religion of attacking and raping and scalping innocent and harmless puritan pilgrim pioneers heading westbound across America?]

Joshua 10:40 So Joshua defeated the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.

Judges 20:28 . . . and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, "Shall we yet again go out to battle against our brethren the Benjaminites, or shall we cease?" And the LORD said, "Go up; for tomorrow I will give them into your hand."

Judges 21:11 This is what you shall do; every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall utterly destroy."

First Samuel 15:1 And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore respond to the words of the LORD.
First Samuel 15:2 Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I will punish what Amalek did to Israel [and hostile american indians did to pioneer-pilgrim puritans?] in opposing them on the way, when they came up out of Egypt.
First Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"

First Chronicles 14:10 And David inquired of God, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?" And the LORD said to him, "Go up, and I will give them into your hand."

Lest Zimmerman become too heady after executing needlessly-and-suicidally-hostile raised-third-finger Trayvon Martin, and being acquitted in court for so doing, Zimmerman must understand that he (as does God the Global Flooder) takes responsibility for killing not only Martin but any other lawbreaker he authorizes himself (under God) or is authorized (under government) to execute -- whether in a new and different or another similar situation of understandable under-duress self-defense or authorized law-enforcement termination against others in fact actually deserving such execution.
Exodus 14:14 The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be still.

Deuteronomy 1:30 The LORD your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
Deuteronomy 20:4 for the LORD your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.'

Second Kings 6:11 And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this [classified information leak]; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?"
12 And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, Oh king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber."
13 And he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him." It was told him, "Hey, he is in Dothan."
14 So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army; and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
15 When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, hey, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. And the servant said, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"
16 He said, "Fear not, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."
17 Then Elisha prayed, and said, "Oh LORD, I pray you, open his eyes that he may see." So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and hey, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
18 And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, "Strike this people, I pray you, with blindness." So He struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
19 And Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, and this is not the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." And he led them to Samaria.
20 As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, "Oh LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and wow, they were in the midst of Samaria.
21 When the king of Israel saw them he said to Elisha, "My father, shall I slay them? Shall I slay them?"
22 He answered, "You shall not slay them. Would you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master."
23 So he prepared for them a great feast; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians came no more on raids into the land of Israel.

Second Kings 19:32 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, "He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.
33 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city," says the LORD.
34 "For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."
35 And that night the angel of the LORD went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, hey, those were all dead bodies.
36 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went home, and lived at Nineveh.
37 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, slew him with the sword, and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Isaiah 37:33 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: "He shall not come into this city, or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege mound against it.
34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city," says the LORD.
35 "For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."
36 And the angel of the LORD went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, hey, those were all dead bodies.
37 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went home and lived at Nineveh.
38 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, slew him with the sword, and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Acts 5:1 But a man named Ananias with his wife Sapphira sold a piece of property,
2 and with his wife's knowledge he kept back some of the proceeds, and brought only a part and laid it at the apostles' feet.
3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the proceeds of the land?
4 While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."
5 When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died. And great fear came upon all who heard of it.
6 The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.
7 After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
8 And Peter said to her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much." And she said, "Yes, for so much."
9 But Peter said to her, "How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Listen up: the feet of those that have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out."
10 Immediately she fell down at his feet and died. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
11 And great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all who heard of these things.

It behooves Zimmerman (and all of us) to seriously consider the following:

First Samuel 2:9 He will guard the feet of his faithful ones; but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness; for not by might shall a man prevail.
Zechariah 4:6 Then he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit," says the LORD of hosts. From now on, Zimmerman (and all of us) need to be realistic as to who (if anyone) to shoot dead, instead of merely wound (enabling the shot one who recovers to resentfully come back at us whenever and wherever):

Leviticus 19:18 You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
Proverbs 19:19 A man of great wrath will pay the penalty; for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.
Nahum 1:9 What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end; He will not take vengeance twice on his foes.

Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
Proverbs 21:31 The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD.
Proverbs 30:33 For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.

Ecclesiastes 6:10 Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.

Matthew 26:52 Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. [including David, who never perished by the sword, yet cut off Goliath's head with a sword? Not!]

Luke 11:21 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace;
Luke 11:22 but when one stronger than he assails him and overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoil.

Luke 14:31 Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 14:32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace.

Who owns the single-shot 12-gauge or derringer . . . versus who owns the AK-47 or Uzi fully-automatic machine gun with copious amounts of ammunition? Concealed or not? And who is authorized to actually use the aforementioned firearms? Against who? And under what conditions or circumstances?

Luke 22:36 [Jesus] said to them, "But now, let him who has a purse take it, and likewise a bag. And let him who has no sword sell his mantle and buy one.
Luke 22:38 And they said, "Look, Lord, here are two swords." [ a Smith & Wesson .38 or Colt.45, a Glock or Ruger? ] And He said to them, "It is enough." [Or as Joe Biden advised: "Buy a shotgun."]

One last thing.

Do not let your "friend" take your firearm and give it to some passerby off the street, promising you that the passerby guarantees that that passerby only wants it for a while "to do some target practice" and will "soon" thereafter return it to you:

Proverbs 11:15 He who gives surety for a stranger will smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure.

Sufficient giving and taking of enough documented I.D. is not only cheap insurance, but absolutely essential in such cases.