“Prior to the shift in policy, having a weapon on church grounds was considered “inappropriate.” “
“The change was revealed in an update to a handbook sent electronically to local church leaders over the weekend.”
Medicynical note: This common sense rule is only necessary in the US where gun murders, school shootings, accidental deaths of children and adults, and gun suicides are the higher by several orders of magnitude than most if not all industrialized countries. Thanks Supreme Court and Congress. If gun fear is freedom, I don’t want it.