Trunk Monkey
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This poor guy should be wake up call, that a 'security team', if serious, cannot be a bunch of old farts talking about stopping power and only shooting at static square range targets. A friend of mine and I have been trying to get one of these passed the stage of a few dudes with LCPs in their pockets. The reluctance to train is well discussed among serious gun folks. We will see if the team takes it seriously. I do know some serious teams that I saw at matches and discussed their training.
A quick and dirty diagnostic would be: Do team members compete in one of the shooting sports?
The biggest problem I see with church security teams is that they're volunteers and they're usually understaffed. To a degree the church takes what it can get.
Most of the people on the security team at my church aren't what people here would call serious shooters. I was surprised at the number of team members who carried Shields because they were cheap a couple of the guys carried Taurus guns and a couple didn't carry any gun at all because it was unseemly to carry a gun in the house of God. The church provided professional training but again most of the team weren't serious about actually learning anything. I know this by the number of Uncle Mike's holsters I saw them using.
The church doesn't have any real authority over the team members except to remove them from the team. If a team member doesn't feel like showing up for a given service, they don't show up. I think I've told this before but one night I was doing parking lot duty when I saw the guy who was supposed to be on the second floor walking around the parking lot. When I rolled up on him to see what was up he informed me that he knew he was supposed to be on the second floor but that God had told him to walk through the parking lot and if I didn't like that oh well. What am I supposed to do with that? I've got no authority over the guy.
Unless the church hires a professional security team that's kind of what they've got to work with.