Politics & Government
McPherson: Guns and Churches
One armed good guy would have made all the difference in South Carolina.
“[A]ll suche as beare armes shall bring their pieces, swords, pouder and shotte [to church].”
– 1619 Virginia Statute
Wednesday night a madman shot nine people to death at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The killer then fled the scene and as of this writing is at large and considered ”a very dangerous individual.”
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Tragically, the only person armed was the bad guy. With no good guys present to defend the helpless parishioners, innocent people became sitting ducks.
In the last year, armed citizens in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Darby (Pennsylvania) thwarted mass shootings, taking down the would-be killers. Cops think that armed citizens are the best way to prevent such incidents. We should listen to them.
