Praying While Packing Heat and Other Unwieldy American Traditions
Jack Schwartz of The Daily Beast reports on Arkansas’s Church Protection Act, which was signed into law this month and allows parishioners to carry guns in church. Schwartz writes that the law’s supporters argue that “a church being a public place, a mobilized congregation could defend itself from whatever armed intruder that threatened the peace of the faithful.” He continues, “The Second Amendment can be, well, a two-edged sword.”