The decision to post these signs is entirely voluntary on the part of the business. The posting of signage like this only helps to guarantee criminals that they will not face armed resistance if they decide to victimize those inside at the time.

Until these businesses remove the no CWP signs, they WILL NOT receive any money from me as I will take my business and money elsewhere. I encourage all CWP holders to respectfully let the management know that they disagree with their decision to prohibit lawfully concealed weapons.

• Aiken Mall Cinemas, 300 East Gate Dr. Aiken, SC

The business will be removed from this list when they remove the signs that prohibit law-abiding citizens from being able to protect themselves and families while inside their business.

Anyone that is aware of a business that properly posts signs that prohibit concealable weapons in the Aiken, SC area may contact me to get them added to this list. Likewise, if someone notices that a listed business removes the signs prohibiting concealed weapons, please let me know so that I can verify it and remove them from the list.

The gunman was tackled by church members and eventually taken into police custody. None of the children were injured. A hospital spokeswoman said five of the wounded were in critical condition.

Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen identified the man killed as Greg McKendry, 60, a longtime church member and usher at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. Knoxville spokesman Randall Kenner says 61-year-old Linda Kraeger died at University of Tennessee Medical Center on Sunday, several hours after the shooting.

Fifty-eight-year-old Jim Adkisson is in custody and charged with first-degree murder in the shootings that also left seven injured.

“It appears Mr. McKendry was the first person (Adkisson) encountered when he walked into the sanctuary,” Owen said. “It’s going to be a while before all the facts are cleared up.”

A church member who arrived moments after the shooting said the gunman fired three times and was tackled. Steve Drevick said he spoke to several eyewitnesses and that no one at the church recognized the gunman. He did said the gunman had more ammunition on him.

Officials wouldn’t say exactly how many people helped subdue the gunman.

“It was a large group and we are thankful for them for without it, this situation could have been even worse,” Mayor Bill Haslam said.

There were about 200 people at the time of the shooting watching a youth performance being put on by 25 children.

Church member Marty Murphy told The Knoxville News Sentinel that she was about 30 to 40 feet from the shooter when the rampage began.

“We heard the first shot,” she said. “It sounded like a bomb went off. We thought it was part of the program at first.”

She said church members dove under church pews and others ran out the sanctuary.

Murphy told the newspaper some of the children were close to the shooter when the attack began.

“One little girl had blood all over her,” she said. “She was just hysterical. I don’t know how that girl is going to sleep tonight.”

Another witness told the newspaper that the man killed was a hero.

“Greg McKendry stood in the front of the gunman and took the blast to protect the rest of us,” Barbara Kemper said.

Police had cordoned off the church with yellow and red tape, and were taking statements and collecting video cameras from church members who were taping the performance. Owen said the FBI also was assisting in the investigation.

The church’s minister was on vacation in western North Carolina at the time of the shooting but returned Sunday afternoon.

“We’ve been touched by a horrible act of violence. We are in a process of healing and we ask everyone for your prayers,” the Rev. Chris Buice said in a statement outside the church.

The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church is a community that meets to worship and work together for social change, according to the church’s Web site. Since the 1950’s, the congregation has worked for desegregation, racial harmony, fair wages, women’s rights and gay rights, according to the Web site. The congregation also has provided sanctuary for political refugees, fed the homeless and founded a chapter of the ACLU.

Source: Foxnews.com

“People who are old enough to fight and die in the military should be able to purchase handguns, and the bill will put our laws more in line with those of other states,” Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer said.

The law went into effect immediately.

South Carolina is one of 18 states — and the only one in the South — that had set 21 as the age for handgun ownership, according to the National Rifle Association. The group says Wyoming has no handgun age requirement. In Montana, it’s set at 14; in Vermont, 16.

Rep. Mike Pitts, a Laurens Republican and retired police officer, had filed the bill to help out a national gun wholesaler located in Lexington County where employees younger than 21 were filling orders over the phone. A legal opinion by state Attorney General Henry McMaster had said that was not allowed because of their age and Pitts argued it would cost half the company’s workers their jobs.

Pitts said gun retailers will still have to comply with state and federal firearms laws.

He said he sees no need to change the minimum age of 21 for a concealed weapons permit in South Carolina.

Source WLTX.COM