What would you do?

What would you do?
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Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 4:29pm

What would you do if armed terrorists broke into your church and starting attacking your friends with automatic weapons in the middle of a worship service? Would you be prepared to defend yourself and other innocents? Would you be justified in doing so? Is it time for Americans to consider such once-unthinkable possibilities? There is one man in the world who can address these questions with first-hand experience. His name is Charl van Wyck – a South African who was faced with just such a shocking scenario. In "Shooting Back: The Right and Duty of Self-Defense," van Wyk makes a biblical, Christian case for individuals arming themselves with guns, and does so more persuasively than perhaps any other author because he found himself in a church attacked by terrorists. "Grenades were exploding in flashes of light. Pews shattered under the blasts, sending splinters flying through the air," he recalls of the July 25, 1993, St. James Church Massacre. "An automatic assault rifle was being fired and was fast ripping the pews -- and whoever, whatever was in its trajectory -- to pieces. We were being attacked!" But van Wyk was not defenseless that day. Had he been unarmed like the other congregants, the slaughter would have been much worse. "Instinctively, I knelt down behind the bench in front of me and pulled out my .38 special snub-nosed revolver, which I always carried with me," he writes in "Shooting Back," a book published for the first time in America by WND Books. "I would have felt undressed without it. Many people could not understand why I would carry a firearm into a church service, but I argued that this was a particularly dangerous time in South Africa." During that Sunday evening service, the terrorists, wielding AK-47s and grenades, killed 11 and wounded 58. But the fact that one man – van Wyk – fired back, wounding one of the attackers and driving the others away. Those killed that day were: • Guy Cooper Javens • Richard Oliver O'Kill • Gerhard Dennis Harker • Wesley Alfonso Harker • Denise Gordon • Mirtle Joan Smith • Marita Ackerman • Andrey Kayl • Karamjin Oleg • Varaksa Velentin • Pavel Valuet The last four were Russian seamen attending the service as part of a church outreach program. Another Russian seaman, Dmitri Makogon, lost both legs and an arm in the attack.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Do YOU really have to suffer before YOU WAKE UP and bring ballance to Your Community? An informed, trained, free and armed Populace is a Polite and Safer Community. This isn't a gun matter, it is a Survival Matter. Let Freedom Ring!