Charleston Church Slaughter

It is reported that a young white male entered a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina and killed nine people participating in a prayer meeting. The gunman is still at large.

At my Unitarian Universalist Congregation we have had a church member who has been assigned security duty for a while. I've kind of thought this was a little over the top as the security person would probably not be able to stop any attack and police response would be way too late to make a difference.

I just thought we would just be in a safe place. This is a really sad happening as once again I have been proven wrong about some of my more quaint ideas about safety.

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