While this would not affect me, personally, I still remember being in an MICU the evening that Wedgewood Baptist's shooting went down (September 15, 1999) and wondering why there wasn't SOMEONE at the church that could have stopped that madman.Charles L. Cotton wrote:Churches do have a unique need for this legislation that no other non-profit experiences. (The bill also applies to schools.) No other non-profit organization tends to have a large number of people gathered in one location on a regular basis, thus making the planning and attack by a mass murdered easier. Churches are targeted specifically because they are places of worship.Dave2 wrote:I didn't pick that one because I don't see what makes churches special in this regard. I'd either make the exception for all non-profits in general, or not for anybody (not sure which).android wrote:I don't even go to church and I picked that one. I have read about the issue and I think it's a burdensome restriction.RPBrown wrote:With all of the lengthy discussions here about church carry and security teams, I am surprised to see the number for that so low.
(By fluke of just seconds, my partner and I had just gone "Code 6" in our MICU ambulance (meaning, we were going off duty and protected from any further calls that would have drug us into overtime), and were returning to our base station in South Fort Worth, and were just a couple of miles away from Wedgewood Baptist when the first call came out. The problem was that we were on the Loop, with no easy exit, and because we had just gone "Code 6", we had dropped off the dispatch screen, otherwise we probably would have been first-on. On one hand, i'm glad we didn't go (who really wants to work a scene where so many kids were slaughtered - I'm given to understand that crews that were on scene often reported continuing signs of PTSD several months later). Then, on the other hand, I've always wondered if we were really closer than anyone, and could we have saved anyone that didn't make it. What if's... always, what if's...).