I have seen far too many times the old crap about how the US has four hundred eighty pounds of laws or something like that, when all the Hebrew children needed was the 10 Commandments. This is the sort of thing that unthinking, stupid people say.
We constantly hear about how the US was founded on the Bible, when only perhaps four of the Ten Commandments are encoded into laws in this country. The American legal system is based on English common law, NOT the Bible.
Turning the other cheek means exactly like that. It does not mean perforating whomsoever confronts you with bullets. Jesus was clearly nonviolent. The NRA is clearly in favor of making violence efficiently, because that is what a firearm does.
There never was any King Oedipus, that story was a myth. By the way, Oedipus, fleeing a prophesy, killed his real father Laius(The King of Thebes) and married his mother Jocasta (The Queen). He was a local hero because he answered the Riddle of the Sphinx, which made the Sphinx stop blocking the road into Thebes, and actually kill herself, which is apparently what Sphinxes do when you answer their riddles correctly. When the truth was revealed that Oedipus had killed his father and married his mother, he gouged out his eyes, and Jocasta killed herself. The moral of the tale is that you cannot run away from a prophesy.