Yah, I'm still trying to get used to the idea that someone thinks to bring a gun into a place of worship, whether to commit mayhem or in anticipation that someone else will do that. Time was when you were wrestling with some problem and ended up in a house of worship, you wanted either to pray or seek religious counsel.
If I could get past that mental block maybe I could move on to wondering why the USA still puts the right to bear arms over the right not to fear that oneself, one's family or friends will be shot at for no reason on the street, in a supermarket, classroom or church. We have ten times more wrongful deaths by gunfire every year than we suffered at the hands of a bunch of terrorists in 2001. Since and as a result of that set pf September 11 incidents, we have parted ways with a lot of civil liberties "because terrorism". Yet our highest court so far still insists on maintaining a tenuously construed right to possess guns as individuals --despite the Constitution's reference to "well organized militias" -- and thus a right to end up slaying ourselves or each other over anything from road rage through lost jobs, broken love affairs, teen angst, delusional thinking, carelessness, mistaken identity... For the life of me I can't get to where this makes sense.
