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Is your church a place where only criminals may have firearms? (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
Last week in Mitchell County, a man with gun robbed a preacher in his church. The story notes that armed robbers held up three deacons at a church in Camilla, Georgia, about a month ago. What makes this ironic is that Georgia is one of only five states that makes it illegal for a preacher, or anybody else, to carry a firearm to or while at a church. The reason, of course, is Georgia's infamous public gathering law, passed in 1870 to disarm black worshippers and place them at the mercy of armed mobs.
Georgia's public gathering law has never deterred criminals, and, in fact, makes it safer for criminals to ply their evil trade.
Since most other states do not have a gun ban for churches, the outcome of robbery attempts on the local preacher is sometimes very different from what happens in Georgia. Yesterday (Sunday), a preacher shot an armed robber in Detroit, Michigan. The robber is expected to survive, but we cannot help but observe that criminals in Michigan are learning a very different lesson from criminals in Georgia. Churches may not be such a soft target after all.
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