Church Slaying Sparks Search For Answers - Miss Obvious
July 28, 2008 by Conservative Culture
Filed under Ohio
Ohio’s carry conceal automatically excludes churches from the permit. A church has to allow permit holders to carry. This shooting in Knoxville is a good example of liberal thinking. Men blocking bullets is heroic. Men dieing to save children is heroic. What is disturbing is that few would see the answer as a hero with a carry conceal permit to pull his gun and take out the shooter permanently. While this congregation and society “ponder what to do” and “what answers can we find”… the answer is obvious. Allow law abiding citizens to defend themselves wherever they are. In doing so they will save many lives.
A side note on this tragic shooting. I doubt that will be the conclusion of this congregation. However, according to Universalism’s teaching they shouldn’t find a problem with taking a life. Everyone in the end will be in heaven according to Wikepedia.
The defining theology of Universalism is universal salvation; Universalists believe that the God of love would not create a person knowing that that person would be destined for eternal damnation. Thus, they concluded that any existing person must be destined for salvation. In other respects Universalists followed orthodox Christian doctrine, simply expanding the number of the saved to include all persons. Some Universalists believe that Hell exists as a temporary abode for those who have died unreconciled to God, but where God continues to work with the souls in Hell and will lead them eventually to the salvation God intends for all persons. Other Universalists, notably Hosea Ballou, denied the existence of Hell entirely.
What is problematic is that many liberal churches believe that the love of life prohibit the taking of life. Where is the love of life when the only lives a person can take are innocent lives. This wicked man comes to only kill and steal life. It is the responsibility of the adults to protect all life but the murderer standing and point a gun at the youth. It’s time for all states to allow permit holders with their weapon in churches.
Tags: Ohio(CBS/AP) Members of a Knoxville church are in mourning after a gunman opened fire at a youth performance, killing two people and injuring seven others….
Fifty-eight-year-old Jim D. Adkisson is in custody and charged with first-degree murder in the shootings at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville. He is being held on a millionRight after the play had started, we were sitting there and heard a loud explosion,” Terry Uselton told CBS’ The Early Show. “Couldn’t figure out what was going on; we thought maybe it was something with the lighting or something went wrong. Heard a second explosion. And then I turned around to look and saw a man standing in the doorway with a gun. And so I got up from my seat and started toward him.”
Uselton helped tackle Adkisson to the ground.
He said, being a teacher, he has thought through scenarios of how to protect children in the event of a school shooting. “This is one of those cases,” Uselton said. “That was my thought: ‘Somebody’s got to stop this guy.’”
Another witness told the newspaper that the man killed was a hero.
“Greg McKendry stood in the front of the gunman and took the blast to protect the rest of us,” Barbara Kemper said.
McKendry’s foster son Taylor Bessette watched it happen.
“He stood in front of the bullets between the child and the gunman and actually took the bullets to save the child,” said Bessette.
