Baptist Leader: Just Rush Insane Gunmen
Posted by DamDanger at 4:51 pm. Filed under: Fanatics
Some conservative Baptist leader thinks students facing insane gunmen like the one at Virginia Tech should simply rush the guy. OK, that holds some water to me. It’s what I would do. After all, he only had pistols. He has to reload. However, who are we to judge the actions of someone in such a situation? Sure, we’d all like to look gung ho, but in the face of such danger we may cower in fear…
The head of a Southern Baptist seminary told male students they should charge an attacker if confronted with a situation like last week’s Virginia Tech shootings.
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Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, made the comments at a chapel service April 18, two days after Seung-Hui Cho fatally shot 32 people before killing himself.
“All you had to do was have six or eight (students) rush him right at that time and 32 people wouldn’t have died,” Patterson said. “You don’t let things like that happen, guys. We just don’t do it.”
Patterson, who helped lead the 1979 conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he doesn’t regret the remarks. He said he wasn’t criticizing actions taken at Virginia Tech, though he said his comments were characterized that way by some “for less than noble reasons.”