Petition to Stop Mississippi Church Protection Act and Constitutional Carry Garnered Three Signatures

By Dean Weingarten

Nearly two weeks ago, Ariel Draper started a petition to push Governor Phillip Bryant to veto Mississippi House Bill 786. The goal of the petition was to get 1,000 signatures in support. The petition had three signatures when the bill was signed into law today. (Presumably, one of those was the petition’s author.) The petition used rather incendiary language. . .

Mississippi House Bill 786 introduces legislation that would grant the following :

To provide that killing a person while acting as a participant of a church or place of worship security team is JUSTIFIABLE homicide ; and for related purposes.

Literally making a “Church Police” legal, allowing a church’s “security team” to take it upon themselves to decide whether others live or die, and have legal protection!

The reality is quite a bit less dramatic. The bill enables churches to appoint volunteers for church security who must be appointed in writing, and receive relevant training. The law gives them the same legal protections that private security guards enjoy. That’s considerably different than granting a church security team the power to execute people at will.

If you parse the petition carefully, you may note that everyone in society “take(s) it upon …Read the Rest

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