God made many angry and vengeful comments in the Old Testament. He told the Israelites to "utterly destroy" all living things in the promised land when they arrived.
You have to undetrstand that the Saints had been brutally kicked from land and home many times. A person begins to take a stand and not allow such things.
Very interesting that a person can overlook everything else, even having read the Book of Mormon as you claim, and find it all false because a group of people were weary of having their lands and possessions stolen out from under them while the government did little to nothing in their defense.
I expect people to defend their homes, if necessary and possible.
I expect you do too, and I suspect you would given the chance. If you lost some of your own children and friends to mobs and brutality, you would take a stand.
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