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sell your cloaks and buy swords

Turns out that the crazy who shot up a seminary and a church wasn’t stopped by remorse, or the police, or a SWAT team…but by a member of the church security team, who was armed.

Hoo-ahh.

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7 Responses to “sell your cloaks and buy swords”

  1. brian Says:
    December 10th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    I’m trying to get past the idea of having armed security guards at church.

    What a world.

  2. Noah D Says:
    December 10th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    It’s why I carry at church, among many other places.

  3. Joshua W. Burton Says:
    December 10th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    Weird enough that the goyim carry money on the sabbath, and pass the plate right out in public. Carrying in the other sense seems meek and mild in comparison.

  4. brian Says:
    December 10th, 2007 at 7:58 pm

    It’s why I carry at church, among many other places.

    That’s one thing – but having a church with security guards …. that’s wild.

  5. Joshua W. Burton Says:
    December 10th, 2007 at 9:24 pm

    That’s one thing – but having a church with security guards …. that’s wild.

    Again, we all live different lives. Despite my previous snark, I would be as unlikely to carry a weapon to shul on shabbat or holidays as a wallet, but I can’t remember the last time I attended a high holiday service (except in Israel, of course) that didn’t at least hire a uniformed rent-a-cop and station a greeter with him to identify the regulars.

    This was in front of the synagogue where we meet, last spring. And this was on our walking route home. I’m not reaching for sympathy here; West Rogers Park and Skokie are as safe and heymish and optimistically American as anywhere I’ve ever lived. But sure, houses of worship are conspicuous targets — they have been since the Bronze Age, no?

  6. Kevin Says:
    December 10th, 2007 at 11:02 pm

    [quote comment="108002"]That’s one thing – but having a church with security guards …. that’s wild.[/quote]

    They may not always have a security guard – this report (via Instapundit) says that the church ‘”prepared in advance” for a possible attack’ in response to an attack on a missionary training center in Denver earlier that day.

  7. tjic Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 7:53 am

    Spoke to my college friend Karen (Dahlby) Tallentire last night.

    She apparently knows the women who shot the perp.