Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Utah churches grapple with a scary scenario: What to do if a shooter shows up?

From Utah-

Utah’s Episcopal Bishop Scott Hayashi knows how it feels to have a bullet rip through his flesh.
Decades ago, the future clergyman was a 19-year-old clerk in a Tacoma, Wash., record store when three robbers stormed into the place. One hopped over the counter and demanded the young Hayashi give him all the money in the cash register. It was $9.


As the young clerk turned his head, the thief thrust his gun at Hayashi’s abdomen and fired.


“Even though I had been shot,” the Utah bishop says in a video produced by the Episcopal Diocese of Utah, “I did not feel any pain.”

He laid on the floor in shock until others found him. A few months and multiple surgeries later, Hayashi emerged from his hospital bed forever changed.


At no time, though, did he wish he had a firearm at the store.



More here-

http://www.sltrib.com/religion/local/2017/11/26/utah-churches-grapple-with-a-scary-scenario-what-to-do-if-a-shooter-shows-up/

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