{"id":66033,"date":"2017-12-06T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66033"},"modified":"2017-12-06T06:36:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T11:36:16","slug":"rns-god-and-guns-texas-pastors-undergo-security-training-a-month-after-sutherland-springs-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66033","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) God and guns: Texas pastors undergo security training a month after Sutherland Springs massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shooting holes in a \u201cpaper bad guy\u201d during target practice? That\u2019s easy.<\/p>\n<p>Defending a house of worship against a real gunman? That\u2019s a whole different story.<\/p>\n<p>As he led a security training on Tuesday (Dec. 5) at a Dallas-area megachurch, Sgt. Mike Gurley warned against thinking that worshippers licensed to carry handguns can offer reliable protection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo assume they\u2019re going to be effective in an active-shooter situation is comparable to giving me a set of golf clubs and expecting me to win the Masters,\u201d the retired Dallas policeman told the crowd of 650 pastors and other church leaders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2017\/12\/05\/god-and-guns-texas-pastors-undergo-security-training-a-month-after-sutherland-springs-massacre\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shooting holes in a \u201cpaper bad guy\u201d during target practice? That\u2019s easy. Defending a house of worship against a real gunman? That\u2019s a whole different story. As he led a security training on Tuesday (Dec. 5) at a Dallas-area megachurch,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66033\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66034,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66033\/revisions\/66034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}