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With guns. The meak are not, or at least should not be, defenseless.
Do the amish have guns? Muskets don't count for modern wars. I'll admit I don't actually know all that much about the amish.
do Amish have guns? Muskets...
Rofl.
It looks like they have no problem with modern weapons for hunting. (amishamerica.com) I would imagine that the standard rule applies; fuck around & find out.
But from the beginning of that same page: "Amish will not bear arms against others, but they do use firearms for hunting and other purposes amish gunsThe Amish belief in nonresistance mean Amish will not serve in the military, law enforcement, or in any other position that requires them to use firearms against other people."
And a link on that page leads to an explanation of their nonresistance, with excerpts such as
"The Amish belief in non-resistance is rooted in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Jesus instructs his disciples to “resist not evil, but whoever shall smite thee on they right cheek, turn to him the other also” (Matthew 5:39). Amish take this admonition quite seriously, and see the violent approach to solving problems as un-Christian."
"Jacob Hochstetler is another Amishman who, during the French and Indian War, offered an example that resonates today with his many descendants. Facing an attack by Native Americans, Hochstetler forbade his boys to fire back in defense. Jacob and two sons were subsequently captured, and his wife, son, and daughter scalped.
Hochstetler chose not to retaliate in the spirit of non-resistance, as he belived it wrong to take human life. As a result Hochstetler lost his loved ones and his freedom. While modern Americans might find it hard to understand Hochstetler’s decision, Amish today take inspiration in the early Amishman’s example, seeing it as how Christ himself would have acted."
"Mandatory military service or using force as a police officer, or indirectly as a government official or agent of the state, is in the Amish view un-Christian and in violation of the rules of the spiritual kingdom.
At the same time, Amish do not condemn police officers or military. They recognize that they are fortunate to live in a country which allows them to practice their religion without persecution by internal or external enemies. Amish certainly appreciated the response of law enforcement after the Nickel Mines school shooting which took the lives of five Amish schoolgirls."
So, TL;DR, fuck around and find nothing, but they'll be thankful for anyone that might step in and stop you from fucking around. That's kinda sad.
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