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2018-10-29 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Four Things You Can Do Right Now to Harden Your Place of Worship Against a Shooter

[PJ] Sadly, America has experienced yet another maniac shooting up innocent people at a house of worship. On Saturday, a man armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle (which is NOT an "assault rifle" since it cannot fire automatically as only a true assault rifle can) and three semi-automatic pistols murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue and wounded several others (including four police officers). This kind of attack on houses of worship is no longer unheard of.

Last year, the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, was attacked, with 26 killed and 20 wounded. In 2015 Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., was attacked and nine were murdered in cold blood. Christians and Jews are not the only ones targeted. Last year, a gunman invaded a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, and murdered six people. In 2012, a killer entered the Sikh temple in Wisconsin and gunned down six innocent people.

When people gather to worship, unless there are some well-thought-out security measures in place, the worshipers are going to be sitting ducks for any nut case out there who wants to come in with guns blazing. What are some specific things you and your people can do right now to harden your house of worship from an active shooter?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-29 07:15|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 Michael Ledeen writes about the background to this attitude here, and his frustrations trying to fight it at his own synagogue. As he says, “Yet we should have learned one of the lessons of the Holocaust, namely that we must defend ourselves, and fight our enemies.”

Posted by trailing wife 2018-10-29 10:00|| 2018-10-29 10:00|| Front Page Top

#2 People in my congregation would pee their pants if they knew there was a gun in building. I believe there are some of them who would rather die than fight back. I do not believe that Jesus intended us to be defenseless.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-10-29 11:09|| 2018-10-29 11:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Abu Uluque, the rabbis ruled in the Torah is not a suicide pact back in the early days of the Maccabean revolt, as I recall.

Roger L. Simon: This Jewish Boy Is Going to Buy a Gun

Posted by trailing wife 2018-10-29 11:53|| 2018-10-29 11:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Gun-toting rabbi says congregants should arm themselves

Posted by trailing wife 2018-10-29 11:59|| 2018-10-29 11:59|| Front Page Top

#5 When people gather ~~to worship~~, unless there are some well-thought-out security measures in place, the ~~worshipers are~~ gathering is going to be sitting ducks

Posted by Skidmark 2018-10-29 12:49|| 2018-10-29 12:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Down here folks go to the cowboy church for services, then potluck a barbecue and rodeo.

I suppose post services Sunday School and Shootin' would become popular.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-10-29 18:18|| 2018-10-29 18:18|| Front Page Top

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