National Some churches putting faith in their own guns to fend off mass shootings

[Joe Link]

(NEW YORK) — This month's slaughter inside a small Texas church has compelled the church's pastor to carry a gun, but some fellow clergy are already armed with the goal of protecting their congregants.

"Churches are more vulnerable than ever before," pastor Joe Worley of First Baptist Church in Groves, Texas, said.

His congregation is about three hours east of Sutherland Springs, where Devin Kelley allegedly blasted his way into a church Nov. 5 with a high-powered rifle, killing 26 people and wounding 20.

While Worley, 56, puts his "trust in the lord," he's shaken by such mass shootings, the clergyman said.

"You think that it will never happen but we need to be careful, as Christians, not to be naive," he said.

There have been other recent attack on churches.

A gunman shot and killed one person and injured seven others with gunfire at the Burnette Chapel of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee, on Sept. 24.

Two years ago, Dylann Roof apparently spurred by white nationalist views, killed nine people who were meeting for a bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

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[MadDuner]

Sheepdogs guard the flock from wolves.
Good guys with guns help protect good people from bad people.
When seconds count - the Police are just minutes away.

That isn't a slam on LEOs.
It's just the reality of life.
They cannot be everywhere at once to protect people.
So it's up to people to protect themselves.

 

[JOE TRUMP]

I don't go ANY WHERE that i cannot have my gun on me ! Its that simple

 

[targetshooter]

PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!