A witness told CBS 11 News the gunman walked up to a server during communion with a shotgun and then opened fire. According to the witness, another church member shot the suspect....It is better, all the way around, for a religious community to be able to defend itself from these attacks. The attacks may not stop; hatred for the religion or simply for the religious may be too broad and too deep in our culture today. This is not new. Raymond Lull wrote about it in the Middle Ages.
During the incident, two men died from their injuries and another man was critically injured. Authorities believe the gunman is among the three but it’s unknown if he was killed or is injured.
Then if a knight use not his office, he is contrary to his order and to the beginning of chivalry. *** The office of a knight is to maintain and defend the holy catholic faith by which God the Father sent his Son into the world to take human flesh in the glorious Virgin, our Lady Saint Mary; and for to honor and multiply the faith, suffered in this world many travails, despites, and anguishous death. Then in like wise as our Lord God hath chosen the clerks for to maintain the holy catholic faith with scripture and reasons against the miscreaunts and unbelievers, in like wise God of glory hath chosen knights because that by force of arms they vanquish the miscreaunts, which daily labor for to destroy holy church, and such knights God holdeth them for his friends honored in the world and in that other when they keep and maintain the faith by the which we intend to be saved....There are some for whom such service is the most meaningful and proper way of expressing their faith. To deny them the right to do it is to deny them the expression of faith for which they are best fit, and which their soul finds its deepest and most worthy calling. Both the first and the second amendments should apply to the defenders of the faith, then; no government should stand between them and their sacred duty.
UPDATE: Some analysis and advice for those who would do likewise.
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Your update link did not work for me.
Try it again now. I can't tell if it works or not, because Twitter doesn't really work on my laptop anymore since their latest update. It only works on the mobile app.
It doesn't seem to be a bad link. I pasted the URL directly into my Twitter feed, and got the same message I get when I click on the link in the OP:
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It may be that Jack Dorsey objects to favorable outcomes for gun possessors.
From other reporting I've seen, it looks like the one good guy parishioner with a gun who fired back wasn't the only armed parishioner present at the time, and several of them rushed the bad guy--which also suggests a measure of the fire discipline most of us gun owners have.
Eric Hines
There were at least five congregants who were armed and drew at some point- evidence here.
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