if a robber was killing your mom, and you had a gun..

Tad Delay :"The most classic response to a position of nonviolence or pacifism has been some variant of the hypothetical question 'If you walked into a situation in which a villain was [beating/killing/raping/stealing-from] your [wife/grandmother/child] and you had a [gun/knife] in your hand, what would you do?'”    

He responds by summarizing Yoder's take on  the question itself:

• What would you do if…? (Yoder’s counter to the classic nonviolence antithesis)

 

On a lighter (!!) note, see Jon Acuff:

• Wishing you could find your missionary souvenir machete when something goes bump in the night.