An excerpt from featured article in Historynet said in part: "I knew the Mormons were the instigators of this massacre.......the account went on to tell how they were on reasonably good terms with the Painted savages—a few of whom may have been actual Indians—jumped out of the oak brush lining the trail and cut down the women and children, while Lee directed the murder of the wounded. Within five minutes, the atrocity was over. Everyone was dead except for 17 orphans, all under the age of 7, whom the killers deemed too young to be credible witnesses and who qualified as “innocent blood” under Mormon doctrine."...........brings to mind recent events occurring in modern day USA...........every citizens right "to carry a gun"!!!!!