Article: Is Your Church A Sitting Duck?

From Shooting News Weekly: "Hope Isn’t a Plan: Is Your Church a Sitting Duck?" My church is. But I'm old enough to remember when churches didn't need church security teams. John Wilder touches on that era in his piece, "How To Break A Society, Part I." He begins:

    Picture this:  I leave my keys in the truck overnight.  Windows down.  Wallet on the dash.  Next morning?  Still there.  Nothing missing, though a cat might have explored an empty burger wrapper.  No viral TikTok™ of some “youth” doing donuts in my F-150®.

    Absurd?  No.

    And not because Big Brother has cameras up the backside of every squirrel, but because back in the day people just didn’t do that crap.  The neighbors would have known who did it.  Moms would have heard about it at church, and the father of the kid would have heard about it from his boss.

    Shame, accountability, and consequences work better than ankle monitors.

    That was the power of societal norms.  Invisible fences made of “What will people think?”  And the Founding Fathers knew it.  They told us so.

    Benjamin Franklin walked out of the Constitutional Convention and some lady asked what they’d given us. “A republic,” he said, “if you can keep it.” Not “if the government keeps it for you.” Not “if we pass enough laws.” If you can keep it.

    John Adams was even blunter in 1798: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

    They weren’t kidding.    

But liberals felt stifled and had to tear the whole thing down. Read the whole thing.