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    Armed Security at Churches Is Becoming a New Normal

    Congregations adjust to shifting gun policies and the threat of active shooters.

    https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct...aIyutlvqB0JP82
    Last edited by Amp; 10-07-2019 at 10:59 AM.

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    At in least in parts of South Florida, this has been pretty common for a while now. I went to a PCA service in Fort Lauderdale that had legit cops in attendance. I've heard of other churches standing up internal security teams as well.

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    New Life Church pays the city to have off duty cops on site for traffic control. They also have a volunteer security team.

    There are a couple of churches in Colorado Springs that hire uniformed armed security from G4S.

    My church has a volunteer security team.

    There are even insurance companies that specialize in underwriting church security

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    We have a church cat. She is fierce.

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    My church has a volunteer security team as well and we have several locked-on shooters on the team. Fortunately the craziest incident we've dealt with so far was escorting a persistent ex-boyfriend off of church property.

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    Common here. Local range holds regular church security sessions.
    There were some nervous moments when several churches were scoped out by foreign students. Told to leave their backpacks outside.
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    Once again the atheists and agnostics have to fend for themselves...



    (BTW, shouldn't religious institutions not require additional security?)



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    There are about 238,000,000 non-felon adults over the age of 21 in the US.

    There are, at last count, 18,660,000 CCW permitholders.

    40,000,000 people live in permitless concealed carry states.

    I would assume most congregations are, whether they acknowledge it or not, pretty well populated with guns toted in aisle seats and near entry points by people that care deeply about the folks around them.

    Inane state laws and church policies notwithstanding.
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    I go to a large church (but not a “megachurch”), and was over our security team for several years. Like a lot of volunteer ministries, it could be a real headache sometimes.

    I still help out with training— we recently had a range day, and I brought a couple other police FI’s with me from my former agency. It was difficult because of the wide gap in skill. Some guys can run a gun extremely well, and others probably shouldn’t be handling firearms, period. I spent a lot of the time talking about mindset/software, and ended up offending a few people.

    I’ve also brought in a defensive tactics instructor on multiple occasions, which everyone seemed to like.

    My main concern has always been not knowing who all was armed in the congregation— I go to a southern baptist church, after all.

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    My local range has a well-attended church security class every month. It started off as firearm safety and static range target practice, but a committed core group has pushed it towards more IDPA-style drills. The debate now raging is whether it is appropriate to transition from single defender multiple offender IDPA style drills into team clearing drills or if that is just LARPing.
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