Church Security & Legally Armed Parishioners

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The Bishop doesn’t require you to go. That’s your choice. Maybe an hour of not getting the carry the defense of your choosing can be your personal sacrifice. The courthouse requires you to go. If you get a summons and don’t show, the police will come and help you find your way. You also won’t be allowed to take your gun in there. Do you have a problem with that as well?
 
That’s quite true. We don’t know the hour of our death either. Yet from your observation does not flow the right you claim.
If we’re forbidden to be able to defend ourselves, we’ve been denied the right to defend ourselves.

You keep saying that I don’t have the right to be armed just in case I might need to defend myself, but your entire argument against me exercising my right to be prepared against a violent criminal is based on just in case I do something stupid or careless. You can’t have it both ways.
 
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God has not given us a spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind.

Perfect love casts away all fear.

Scripture teaches us.
 
How come?

Those watching aren’t missing the Mass. Which btw isn’t in the Upper Room anymore, either.
 
The Mass is online, as well…

And why not? All this technology that He’s allowed to be developed SHOULD serve Him FIRST.

That is creation’s PROPER use. All the satellites in the sky should serve God Who created them - even the man-made ones - because God created man.
 
These flickering lights…

From the telly, our phones/tablets/etc…

Should not be put under a bushel. (Matthew 5:15; Mark 4:21; Luke 8:16)
 
Your repeating that over and over doesn’t make it true. A plain reading of the Catechism proves you wrong.
Actually, a plain reading of the Catechism in no way proves you have a fundamental right to a particular weapon. In fact, you’ve not provided a single documented Church teaching to support your position.

And to quote you, repeating over and over that you have this as a right doesn’t make it true.
 
You previously said “The danger of an accidental shooting really exists”.
Now it sounds like you are saying that there is no fear. Is that correct ?
 
How come?

Those watching aren’t missing the Mass. Which btw isn’t in the Upper Room anymore, either.
Church teaching addresses this.

http://www.vatican.va/content/bened...n-xvi_exh_20070222_sacramentum-caritatis.html
Finally, with regard to the value of taking part in Mass via the communications media, those who hear or view these broadcasts should be aware that, under normal circumstances, they do not fulfil the obligation of attending Mass. Visual images can represent reality, but they do not actually reproduce it.(177) While it is most praiseworthy that the elderly and the sick participate in Sunday Mass through radio and television, the same cannot be said of those who think that such broadcasts dispense them from going to church and sharing in the eucharistic assembly in the living Church.
Thought for the month: He becomes guilty of rash judgment who, even tacitly, assumes as true, without sufficient foundation, the moral fault of a neighbor. - Catechism of the Catholic Church.
 
your entire argument against me exercising my right to be prepared against a violent criminal is based on just in case I do something stupid or careless.
Millions of people carry guns, you are not being singled out. All gun owners want the right to carry.
 
Just because something exists does not mean I live in fear of it. There have been adults in the us killed by mountain lions, they exist, I do not stay inside for fear of lions.

Flesh eating bacteria exists and each of us run a risk of infection. I’m not living in a bubble because I fear it.
 
If I’m understanding correctly, you’re asking for our opinions/stance on what the USCCB and your Archdiocese has done.

I fully concur with the opinions of the USCCB and your Archdiocese. A place of worship is no place for a firearm. Chances are, there’s a much higher risk of people dying with a firearm present.

I think we should take notes from what most Synagogues and Mosques are doing: security. No firearms at all except for the security guards.
 
Is it God’s will if something goes wrong if there are “many guns in a crowd” ?
 
I am a gun owner, I don’t want the right to carry. I have no legal right to carry, since I have not gotten my CCL, and it does not bother me in the least.
 
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