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Armed parishioners saved 'untold number of lives.' This law made it legal to have guns in church

Posted on AllSides December 31st, 2019
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A shooter at a church in White Settlement, Texas, was taken down by parishioners with guns seconds after he began firing Sunday.

Those parishioners, who were also volunteer members of the church's security team, are able to carry guns into church due to a law passed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in response to another deadly church shooting that took the lives of 26 people in 2017.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick referred to the law during a Sunday night press conference, saying that it was passed following the deadly...

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/30/us/guns-legal-texas-church/index.html

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