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This article really hits home for me. I happen to have been in discussions with our Youth Pastor about the fact that she should get her CHL. She actually brought it up thinking she should because she can. She is from Iowa and they don't have CHL there. But she wasn't sure she could actually shoot someone if the situation came up. So I had the discussion with her that I'd help her through the process to get the CHL, but only AFTER she had gone through the process in her own heart about whether she would use it if called upon. Otherwise she is just providing another weapon into the situation that can be used to escalate things and not stop things.

I just forwarded this article over to her to think about. I want her to be able to say that if someone came in waving a gun around all my kids that she could take action. I'm pretty much always there and I'm prepared to defend any of the kids there as well as my own but I'd sure love to know that she's ready as well.

I have had another discussion with someone at work about the fact that I carry at church and he thought we were opening ourselves up to a lot of liability as individuals and as a church by doing so. I think we are actually opening ourselves us to the BG's by NOT being armed. A BG is going to actually think through enough to figure out where the guns are not and go there. That's why schools are such targets! I'd like to make sure that my church is not a target. There are at least 6 of us that I personally know are armed at church...I hope there are others.