Arm churches now

When my husband and I started church hunting in Los Angeles almost 13 years ago, we were considering a place that was biblically sound, had a thriving children’s ministry, had good parking (I know, such an LA thing), and, most importantly, had armed security.

It was 2012, soon after the shooting at a church in Aurora, Colorado, where the pastor’s mother was shot and killed by a man who’d previously been to prison and had an ongoing dispute with another congregant. He was stopped after murdering her by an armed off-duty officer in attendance that day.