This past Sunday (9/24/17) a black man arrived at a predominately white church in Tennessee and killed one woman and wounded seven other people, including the pastor and his wife.
The story was not easy to find, appearing at
the bottom of page 5 in my local paper. Had it been a white man in a black
church -- well, you’ve seen the rest of that narrative played out.
To add insult to injury, the perpetrator was a
Sudanese immigrant, who came to the US some years ago.
After fatally shooting the woman in the
parking lot, the perp entered the church building and continued shooting. A
church usher confronted the gunman and during the ensuing struggle the intruder
was wounded with his own gun, allowing the usher to retrieve his own gun from
his vehicle in the parking lot. The attacker was then held at gun point until
police arrived.
This episode calls for at least a few comments
(there could be many more):
1 – You are not “safe” in church and you need
to be prepared to defend yourself -- EVERYWHERE.
2 – You should ALWAYS be armed – ALWAYS. I don’t
know Tennessee law about carrying in church, but unless the church had their
own armed security and a metal detector, the “sheep dogs” in the congregation
should have been carrying. Even then, I think I would find another church if
the church sought to disarm me, for any reason. My right to defend myself, and
hence to be armed, is God-given and not granted by, nor legitimately restricted
by, the state or anyone else. If the “law” would disarm me, then in the
immortal words of Charles Dickens’ character, Mr. Brumble: “the law is an ass.”
3 – Police CANNOT protect you. They show up
after the fact, they take perps into custody and draw chalk lines. (Not to
mention confiscating guns used for legitimate defense and oft times even arresting
those who actually defended their persons and their property). THE POLICE ARE
NOT YOUR FRIENDS, but we will save elaboration on that topic for another time.
4 – Perhaps, just perhaps, we should evaluate
the policy of taking in folks from foreign cultures with foreign values and
foreign morals.
So, as I asked in the title of this article: Were
you armed in church this Sunday?
This is how I preach in the pulpit every
Sunday. I think it my duty to be openly armed as an example and encouragement
to others -- AND as a discouragement and warning to some others as well.
This is the sign that appears at the back of
our meeting house:
I know that many in the congregation are armed
in addition to me. Some carry openly and some concealed.
FYI, Florida does “permit” carrying in church,
but does prohibit open carry in public. However, our meeting house is in the
bottom floor of my own residence, so I may openly carry in my own home and I
may encourage others to do so as well.
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