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Originally Posted by ilduclo
Only Two Murdered In Texas Church Shooting Hailed As Second Amendment Christmas Miracle :
A man with a shotgun opened fire in a church in White Settlement (yes, really), Texas, yesterday, killing two parishioners before two members of the church's armed volunteer security team shot and killed the gunman. Police and state and local officials praised the quick response by the security volunteers for preventing a far worse massacre, and advocates of guns everywhere triumphantly pointed to the incident as proof guns save lives, at least after some lives are already lost.
Jack Cummings(yes, really) a minister at the West Freeway Church of Christ (yes, really), told the New York Times that even before the shooting started, the shooter had been "acting suspiciously," so the security volunteers were keeping an eye on him.
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Before any gun nut people jump in, it sounds like these were not casual citizens with open carry permits, they were people who I have to assume had a fair amount of training in more than just safe gun handling. They had certain amounts of security training as a whole.