Hundreds of couples toting AR-15 rifles packed a Unification church in Pennsylvania on Wednesday to have their marriages blessed and their weapons celebrated as “rods of iron” that could have saved lives in a recent Florida school shooting. Women dressed in white and men in dark suits gripped the guns, which they had been urged to bring unloaded to the church in the rural Pocono Mountains, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Philadelphia. Many celebrants wore crowns – some made of bullets – while church officials dressed in flowing bright pink and white garments to go with their armaments. Students from an elementary school near the church were relocated for the day to distance them from the gun-toting couples at the ceremony, according to the Wallenpaupack School District website. Reverend Hyung Jin “Sean” Moon, leader of the church said, “Each of us is called to use the power of the ‘rod of iron’ not to arm or oppress as has been done in satanic kingdoms of this world, but to protect God’s children,” citing the Book of Revelation in the Bible. He goes on to say, “If the football coach who rushed into the building to defend students from the shooter with his own body had been allowed to carry a firearm, many lives, including his own, could have been saved.” Seventeen people were gunned down in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, while armed guards stood outside. The perpetrator used an AR-15 military assault rifle, which is capable of firing 800 rounds per minute. The Reverend asked his parishioners to bring them to him, so he could bless the gun. Now you know.
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