ext_31590 ([identity profile] catsittingstill.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] catsittingstill 2009-06-02 12:05 pm (UTC)

Also horrible is that a church full of people didn't try to catch the guy who did it.

Oh, yeah; I got so caught up in explaining the late-term abortion thing I didn't deal with this.

1) he wasn't in the sanctuary itself (the main part where all the people gather); he was in the entryway after services had started. There wasn't a "church full of people" handy to deal with him but only the handful of people straggling in late or waiting for stragglers (Tiller was acting as an usher, meaning he was handing out programs to people coming in late.)

2) a couple of the stragglers did try to stop him, but quite reasonably backed off when he pointed the gun at them. He'd already proved he was quite willing to kill and it sounds like they didn't have the numbers to swarm him, as happened in the shooting at my church last year. Backing off saved their lives so that they could report him and his car to the police, which is the only thing that led to his later arrest. A good call, in my opinion.

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