Ken Pagano is asking visitors to bring their unloaded handguns in a holster at a late afternoon event at New Bethel Church in southwest Louisville.
Pagano says he got the idea after some members at the Pentecostal church expressed concern over the Obama administration's views on gun control. He says the gathering is meant to promote safe gun ownership.
The "Open Carry Celebration" will include a handgun raffle.
It has prompted a coalition of peace and church groups to stage a peaceful, gun-free event across town at the same time on Saturday.
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UPDATED with priceless excerpts from the NYTimes:
“But for a deep-seated belief in God and firearms, this country would not be here today,” Mr. Pagano declared from the church’s pulpit.
Amens rolled forward from the congregation of about 180 people who were celebrating their ability to bear their arms almost anywhere in Kentucky, including in church.
“There’s a time coming when we may need to protect ourselves from bad things in the world,” she said. “We’ve been hearing the rumors about restricting ammunition so that it all expires, so people won’t have the right to protect themselves.”
Her husband noted that there could come a day “when we’ll need to protect ourselves in church.”
Mr. Frank said that he attended because he loved guns and that he had no qualms about taking them into church, although he left his double-barreled shotgun and bolt-action shotgun in the car.
“I don’t see a thing wrong with having a loaded gun in there,” Mr. Hillerich said. “If the pastor’s in there and he’s got a concealed weapon and somebody comes in and starts shooting people, he can take him out. That’s his right.”
He added: “I think everybody should carry a gun.”
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Gun sales are up because fellas like this are convincing folk that Obama will ban guns any day now.
How this is supposed to happen is hazy but lack of facts never stopped them before.
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