I know of a Presbyterian church north of Houston that did exactly this. Inspired by numerous recent church shootings, at least some of which are found on YouTube, they decided to be proactive. Several parishioners are LEO's, who volunteered to lead Concealed Carry classes. A member of this church, whom I know well, says that about 1/3 of the men in attendance now carry.
My elder sister, who lives in rural west Texas in a very small town, says they do the same thing at her community church. The pastor is also a deputy sheriff. In communities like this, open carry is not uncommon, any my sister herself carries when she goes out to get gas and groceries, since she's 77, widowed, and now lives alone. She told me that, when you go to a gas station at night out there, practically everyone pumping gas is also conspicuously open carrying, this in response to some drive-by robberies. Crime is now, as one might expect, low.
I know of a Presbyterian church north of Houston that did exactly this. Inspired by numerous recent church shootings, at least some of which are found on YouTube, they decided to be proactive. Several parishioners are LEO's, who volunteered to lead Concealed Carry classes. A member of this church, whom I know well, says that about 1/3 of the men in attendance now carry.
ReplyDeleteMy elder sister, who lives in rural west Texas in a very small town, says they do the same thing at her community church. The pastor is also a deputy sheriff. In communities like this, open carry is not uncommon, any my sister herself carries when she goes out to get gas and groceries, since she's 77, widowed, and now lives alone. She told me that, when you go to a gas station at night out there, practically everyone pumping gas is also conspicuously open carrying, this in response to some drive-by robberies. Crime is now, as one might expect, low.
No one does "Us Against Them" with more conviction than paranoid criminals and Christians.
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