Weapons Used By The Burnette Chapel Church Shooter
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 2 months ago
Police say a man charged in a mass shooting at a Tennessee church was armed with two semi-automatic handguns and had two more firearms in his car.
Emanuel Kidega Samson is charged with the fatal shooting of one woman and is expected to face several more charges following the rampage at the Burnett Chapel Church of Christ in Nashville that left six others wounded.
Police spokesman Don Aaron said Monday that Samson fired 12 rounds from a .40-caliber handgun and had another clip attached to a tactical vest. He was also allegedly carrying a loaded 9 mm in the church and had a .22 caliber pistol and military-style AR-15 in the car he had left running outside the church.
But Aaron says police found no AR-15 ammunition on the scene.
This church is very blessed that the shooting wasn’t much, much worse than it was. My counsel stands. Keep your head on a swivel, and your hand ready to present.
And is it too much to ask that folks be as armed as their possible assailants could be? Is it too much to ask that church security teams all around the country think through this issue, and that they demand that the men of the church be ready to defend themselves, their families and other congregants?
On September 26, 2017 at 1:57 pm, MamaLiberty said:
” …they demand that the men of the church be ready to defend themselves,”
Why should anyone “demand” that others be armed? How would you force someone else to be motivated, trained and responsible for carrying a gun. Those things are personal choices. Without those, a person is just another idiot with a gun.
And it isn’t only “men” who should be armed and ready to defend their families and community, by any means. You can bet your beanie that the ladies can do the job if they choose… and are not going to be forced to do that either.
On September 26, 2017 at 2:16 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@Mama,
That’s a great question and I’m glad you brought it up. A church is a covenant, a group of people who have bonded together to accomplish certain things, to hold each other accountable, and to assist each other, even to the point of financial loss to the congregation. A church is entirely voluntary. It isn’t coerced.
I agree with non-coercion, so I cannot demand that the man on the street be prepared to defend himself. But I can leave a church if I sense that the people are pacifists, and also [properly] ask that the church teach its people the value of human life, give firearms classes, and [if it makes you feel better] make it known that they “expect” that each man will contribute to the safety of the congregants. You must give something to the body of Christ. membership in a church should come with certain obligations.