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Should the doors of the church be open and armed?
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Beyond technology, the safety conversation has advanced to the need for church pastors and clergy to also arm themselves with weapons as a form of protection.
“Everybody has a Second Amendment right to be armed with a weapon, but you can’t blanket every church’s security needs across the country,” Gallagher advised. “If you’re holding a gun, it’s for one or two reasons – to take a life or defend someone’s life from being taken. Every pastor is not going to have the necessary training, maturity or law enforcement skill-set to be armed for the varied scenario-based situations,” he added. |
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netsyscon
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| Our church has plain clothes security that patrol the grounds during services. The pastor and a lot of the members are avid hunters and target shooters. There are no signs preventing guns from being carried in the church. We have a church family that looks out for each other and welcomes visitors and new members. However, anyone coming in to do us harm or commit a crime will find out that we are not sheep. Doesn't this make more sense in our crazy world than making the place of worship a "Gun Free" kill zone. |
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| No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775]. |
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