http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/01/04/1465991/-Pastor-courageously-disarms-distraught-gunman-as-60-church-members-face-New-Years-Eve-massacre?detail=email
Minutes before the clock struck midnight and most of the country was about to ring in the New Year, a church congregation in Fayetteville, North Carolina, faced a horrifying scare after a 57-year-old man walked into the church armed with a rifle and ammo clip.
Pastor Larry Wright, who is also a Fayetteville city councilman, was giving a sermon to 60 members of adults and children, when he noticed a man enter the church holding a rifle in the air. Wright left the podium and confronted the stranger and convinced him disarm. Nate Rogers with WNCN news reports:
“He said, ‘I came here with some terrible things on my mind, I was going to do some bad things’,” Pastor Wright told WNCN.
Church members started screaming, and some ran for the exit. But what happened next is stunning.
Wright says the man calmly shared he’d been previously hurt by the church, recently released from prison and was also a veteran.
He then asked for prayers.
Wright took the gun away and called for other men to come and embrace the suspect.
The man fell to his knees and cried. This story hits home on many issues, especially gun violence, the ease of gun access, and the plight of American veterans unable to get the help they need. Thank you, Pastor Wright, for your great courage and faith in turning what could have been a horror story into a story of positive and productive messages.
this year has promise but only if we make it and keep it. there are those who would relive all the darkness of recent years we out number them and the law is slowly coming around that too can be hurried by our vote do it in the name of sanity and safety.
have you noticed these things never happen at White churches?????????????????
