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Someone thought this was a good idea: Mississippi Senate passes bill allowing churches to form militias; Perhaps the scariest part is how relatively easy it is to join a "church security team" and bring your gun to mass
Topic Started: Mar 31 2016, 05:16 PM (1,928 Views)
Dem4life

The Mississippi Senate on Tuesday passed “Mississippi Church Protection Act, opening the door to houses of worship forming militias there.

The Act would, in part, “provide that killing a person while acting as a participant of a church or place of worship security team is justifiable homicide.” Such church security teams would authorize “designated members … to carry firearms for the protection of the congregation of such church or place of worship.”

Permissible firearms, according to the bill, include “a stun gun, concealed pistol or concealed revolver.”

The bill will now return to the House of origin for further deliberation before it reaches Republican Gov. Phil Bryant’s desk.

What the Act effectively allows is for churches to form militias. And the red-tape requirements to form these armed militias are only marginally more stringent than getting a firearms permit in the state of Mississippi.

Assuming you already have a permit, all you need to do is take “an instructional course in the safe handling and use of firearms,” and then, congratulations, you’re certified to pack heat at your church!

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/31/someone_thought_this_was_a_good_idea_mississippi_senate_passes_bill_allowing_churches_to_form_militias/
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Huh. I had no idea Mississippi churches were such dangerous places ...
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I wonder if mosques in Mississippi will be starting up militias?


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Oh, God, no. Them folks is moozlum fer chrissakes ...
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:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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And people from the South wonder why the rest of the nation perceives them as ignorant and backwards...
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Ahmmm...guys...I'd hardly call the weapon of choice for a militia to be a pistol or a taser?
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Tsalagi
Mar 31 2016, 06:55 PM
Ahmmm...guys...I'd hardly call the weapon of choice for a militia to be a pistol or a taser?
Lite brigade?


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CautionaryTales
Mar 31 2016, 07:06 PM
Tsalagi
Mar 31 2016, 06:55 PM
Ahmmm...guys...I'd hardly call the weapon of choice for a militia to be a pistol or a taser?
Lite brigade?
Mature Boy Scouts maybe....but hardly calls for a militia. My own employer had paid armed security, hardly what I'd call a militia either.
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Tsalagi
Mar 31 2016, 07:30 PM
CautionaryTales
Mar 31 2016, 07:06 PM
Tsalagi
Mar 31 2016, 06:55 PM
Ahmmm...guys...I'd hardly call the weapon of choice for a militia to be a pistol or a taser?
Lite brigade?
Mature Boy Scouts maybe....but hardly calls for a militia. My own employer had paid armed security, hardly what I'd call a militia either.
We had armed security where I worked up until some cowboy shot the window out in the guard shack spinning his pistol.


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It's possible that this move by the MS legislature is in response to this incident in Memphis last week.

But I don't really understand why they need a law for this, I would think that a church could have armed security if they felt it was warranted.

Sounds like an extra layer of protection for church security members, not unlike the "stand your ground" law in Florida.
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If you know the type of sinners who go to church to look for redemption, everyone should carry a gun there...... :-/
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Tsalagi
Mar 31 2016, 07:30 PM
CautionaryTales
Mar 31 2016, 07:06 PM
Tsalagi
Mar 31 2016, 06:55 PM
Ahmmm...guys...I'd hardly call the weapon of choice for a militia to be a pistol or a taser?
Lite brigade?
Mature Boy Scouts maybe....but hardly calls for a militia. My own employer had paid armed security, hardly what I'd call a militia either.
"Militia" The string pullers at Salon do love their big scary words ..don't they.
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wilmywood8455
Mar 31 2016, 05:21 PM
Huh. I had no idea Mississippi churches were such dangerous places ...


Probably not near as dangerous today as they were back when Democrats were blowing them up and burning them. :biggrin:

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dcbl
Mar 31 2016, 08:14 PM
It Sounds like an extra layer of protection for church security members, not unlike the "stand your ground" law in Florida.


That's exactly what it does....Unfortunately that's not sensational enough to pander to anti-southern bigotry...sooo

OMG ...MILITIAAAAA!!!! THE MILITIAS ARE COMING ..THE MILITIAS ARE COMING
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wilmywood8455
Mar 31 2016, 05:21 PM
Huh. I had no idea Mississippi churches were such dangerous places ...


Probably not near as dangerous today as they were back when Democrats were blowing them up and burning them. :biggrin:

Thankfully they became the republican party. Good times...
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Apr 1 2016, 09:31 AM
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Apr 1 2016, 07:00 AM
wilmywood8455
Mar 31 2016, 05:21 PM
Huh. I had no idea Mississippi churches were such dangerous places ...


Probably not near as dangerous today as they were back when Democrats were blowing them up and burning them. :biggrin:

Thankfully they became the republican party. Good times...


Silly goose...that's what the little green grinning guy is for. :biggrin:
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Dem4life

Okay...
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ringotuna
Apr 1 2016, 07:00 AM
wilmywood8455
Mar 31 2016, 05:21 PM
Huh. I had no idea Mississippi churches were such dangerous places ...
Probably not near as dangerous today as they were back when Democrats were blowing them up and burning them. :biggrin:
Ohhh, you mean the good ole days when today's republicans called themselves democrats, prior to LBJ, the civil rights act and Nixon's southern strategy ... those democrats?

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Apr 1 2016, 12:45 PM
ringotuna
Apr 1 2016, 07:00 AM
wilmywood8455
Mar 31 2016, 05:21 PM
Huh. I had no idea Mississippi churches were such dangerous places ...
Probably not near as dangerous today as they were back when Democrats were blowing them up and burning them. :biggrin:
Ohhh, you mean the good ole days when today's republicans called themselves democrats, prior to LBJ, the civil rights act and Nixon's southern strategy ... those democrats?

scroll up to #17

:biggrin:
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