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Soon, many churches in the United States can will receive not only an indispensable spiritual experience, but also a bullet in forehead.
Of course, not just like that, but for the cause. Local parishioners and clergy massively trained in the handling of firearms weapons to be able to protect themselves and their neighbors in case of threat. In addition, significantly increased protection of American churches.
The reason for this was a surge in US crime on religious and racial soil. There were several cases in the country last year. attacks on visitors to religious buildings.
The most sensational incident, if you remember, was the shooting in charleston. On the seventeenth of June 2015, twenty-one-year-old Dylan Ruf walked into the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Emanuel and opened pistol fire on black parishioners. The victims the attacks were three men and six women. Eight of them passed away, including pastor Clement Carlos Pinckney, also a member of the senate of south carolina.
A few hours later, the offender was detained in a neighboring state. It turned out that the killer adheres to neo-Nazi views and plans to unleash a civil war in America between representatives of the white and black population. Rufu were nominated charges of thirty-three counts. Most likely a young man awaiting death sentence.
Priests against the abolition of the right to arms
Shooting in Charleston caused a huge resonance in the American society. President Barack Obama called on residents to reconsider their attitude to the general availability of weapons. This is a statement by the chapter the state caused a flurry of criticism, including from representatives religious communities. Americans recall that the second amendment to US Constitution guarantees them the right to store and carry firearms, and this freedom cannot be taken from citizens. In the end, a person can come to church with a knife or improvised explosives, and then unarmed parishioners will no longer have chances to protect yourself.
In California, many clergy began to insist so that believers acquire weapons and learn to use them. So, Father Kerstan of the Church of St. Joseph in Cupertino stated: “Lord helps someone who helps himself. The Bible calls for us to protect our neighbors, but it’s often impossible to do it with bare hands. Therefore, we advocate that every American, he believes in God or not, had a weapon with him. ”
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