“I thought she was the only armed security officer at the church when all this went down?
Local reports are that two other armed security guards (rent-a-cops? Don’t know for sure) were just standing there. A parishoner was begging one of them to give him a gun.
“Vietnam Vet Larry Bourbannais details two male guards who did not fire, refused to give him their weapons:
Near an entryway in the church, Bourbonnais came upon the gunman and an armed male church security guard who was there with his gun drawn but not firing, he said.
Bourbonnais said he pleaded with the armed guard to give him his weapon.
“Give me your handgun. I’ve been in combat, and I’m going to take this guy out,” Bourbonnais recalled telling the guard. “He kept yelling, ‘Get behind me! Get behind me!’ He wouldn’t hand me his weapon, but he wouldn’t do anything.”
There was an additional armed security guard there, another man, who also didn’t fire, Bourbonnais said.
Bourbonnais yelled at the gunman to draw his attention, he said.
“First, I called him ‘Coward’ then I called him ‘S-—head’ “ Bourbonnais said. “I probably shouldn’t have been saying that in church.””
Will is just a part of this. Divine intervention/guidance was at work here. Pretty obvious to me.
To be fair, we don’t know why the male guard didn’t fire his gun. There could have been backstop problems.
Larry, please sign up for church security detail.