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- Sun Oct 06, 2024 3:32 pm
- Forum: Basic & Advanced Training (Non-LTC)
- Topic: Church Security Team Training
- Replies: 6
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Re: Church Security Team Training
I support having LEOs invovled with church security, but it is important to be realistic that the cost of paying a LEO is high. The church shooting at Lakewood in Houston shows that even hiring multiple LEOs can be ineffective. Despite paying so much money for armed securitytThe Lakewood church shooting was resolved by an armed congregation member (who happened to be a LEO). I ran the numbers an using volunteers is something like 100 to 200 times cheaper.
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: Basic & Advanced Training (Non-LTC)
- Topic: Church Security Team Training
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7590
Re: Church Security Team Training
I can tell you the big churches do have church security teams. The Catholic church is very organized. The training they do is very respectable. I'd say better than LEO. I've seen Mega Churches specifically train their teams to Level III armed security officer standards. They all see a need for such training and have done something about it.LSUTiger wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 4:10 pm A bit off topic. How do you convince your Church leaders to start a Church security team in the first place? What is the best way to approach my pastor about the idea? Currently at my Church there is usually only one Uniformed Police officer split between inside security and traffic detail.
I could run a Church security group but I think I'd rather get some outside source to help me convince the powers that be to start one. Jesus was rejected by his own people. I feel same way approaching this subject by myself.
I'm already a member of a trusted and established Church ministry that could easily be drawn from for members to form a security team. But I can hear them now, "Just trust in the Lord". I say the Lord works in mysterious ways. Be that mysterious way.
In America in the 1600's it was once REQUIRED to carry your gun to church. That was the law. No Joke.
GUN LAW HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES AND SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS (PDF)In Virginia in the early 1600s, men were required to bring their firearms to church
for fear of Indian attacks.