Posted August 8, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Andres Leighton

Speaking with a retired police officer–a man raised by a preacher–about carrying in church, the retired officer commented that he just couldn’t do it. He just didn’t feel right with a firearm on in church.

In response, I asked him how he’d feel if his church was targetted for a mass shooting and he could have stopped it if only he’d been armed?

I don’t know that he started carrying in church after that or not. However, I maintain that if you’re someone who can carry and you don’t, you’ll regret it should something happen.

More importantly, your loved ones may well be the ones who regret it. That happened in the aftermath of Virginia Beach, after all.

That’s also the case with at least one of the victims in El Paso who wished his normally armed mother had been carrying.

A wounded El Paso shooting survivor told CNN anchor Chris Cuomo from his hospital bed that he wished his mother brought the gun she usually carried with them to Walmart on Saturday.

Christopher Grant said he recognized the sound of gunshots, “So I ran toward my mother to try to shield her and I’m like, mom — cause my mom, …Read the Rest

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