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What if First Baptist Church members had carried guns?

A man walks past the front of the First Baptist Church where a gunman opened fire on a Sunday service and killed at least 26 people in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Monday, Nov. 6, 2017.
A man walks past the front of the First Baptist Church where a gunman opened fire on a Sunday service and killed at least 26 people in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Monday, Nov. 6, 2017. TNS

Mr. James Carlisle wrote a Letter to the Editor stating “Guns don’t make us safer, and it’s time for a change.”

If the people in the church would have been carrying a gun, it is more than possible there would not have been so many killed. Have you ever thought of that point?

Luann Reis, San Luis Obispo

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This story was originally published November 11, 2017 at 1:38 PM with the headline "What if First Baptist Church members had carried guns?."

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