To the Edina Community Lutheran Church...

This is why people need the ability to carry pistols to church, if they choose. A man entered a church in Louisiana, shot four of his in-laws to death, and then kidnapped and murdered his wife before being apprehended.

In 2003, when the Minnesota Legislature passed the Personal Protection Act, a bunch of liberal, whiny churches headed up by the Edina Community Lutheran Church filed lawsuits because they wanted not only to ban guns from their premises (which they were free to do) but also ban them from their parking lots and not have to post signs banning guns in their buildings (which they were not free to do). Every other public business in Minnesota has to abide by these rules, which were put into place for a reason (the signage rule to let permit holders know their policy, and the parking lot rules so that a person could leave their weapon in their private car if they still chose to enter the business). Since the churches are open to the public, they were required to follow these rules, which they screamed mightily about. Basically, they wanted the ability to ban guns without telling anybody that they ban guns. I guess they wanted telepathic parishioners.

Well, as a result of their efforts, the churches got the law overturned on a technicality, because the MPPA was attached to a DNR firearms bill. Of course, no other law gets passed this way, such as the law requiring a 24 hour wait for an abortion being attached to a circus bill, but I digress. Since it was an evil firearms law, any means necessary is ok.

Thankfully, the MPPA was repassed as a stand alone bill in 2005, by bigger margins in the Minnesota House and Senate, mainly because the law had not caused any problems. The churches have now sued again, and we will see where it gets this time around.

Unfortunately, churches in Louisiana are off limits by law, so the only firearm in the church was possessed by the killer, who probably didn't care whether or not a sign was on the door. It's a tragedy that a law-abiding armed citizen wasn't able to avert or mitigate this awful act. Something to think about, Edina Community Lutheran Church. Crime doesn't just happen in the ghetto, sometimes it happens in nice places, too.