Florida Lawmakers Looking To Permit More Armed Churchgoers

By Tom Knighton

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The mass shooting in Sutherland Springs shocked the nation, but it really shouldn’t have. While many railed about how churches should be immune to such attacks, it’s not like it was the first by a long shot.

Maniacs often target houses of worship for one simple fact above all others. In many states, it’s illegal to carry a gun to church, which means you have a large number of people in a confined space with limited exits and no firearms. It’s a mass shooters’ playground.

Sutherland Springs was just the most recent here in the United States, though New Zealand fell along a similar pattern.

As a result, many states started changing their laws. Now, it looks like Florida might be joining the ranks of those who did, though it already kind of was.

A controversial gun-rights proposal that was sidetracked last year in the wake of the mass shooting at a Broward County high school started moving in the Senate on Monday.

Voting 4-2 along party lines, the Senate Judiciary Committee backed a measure (SB 1238) that would allow individuals with concealed-weapons permits to carry guns at churches and other religious institutions that share property with schools.

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