Captain Derek Borek of the Rhode Island State Police offered more than 100 church-goers ideas for how to stop or at least slow down an attacker in their own churches and parish halls — and told them that State Police encourage law enforcement officers to carry concealed guns with them when they go to church.
Minimizing an attack starts with planning what you would do if something happened, he said.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998) was a writer and environmentalist who championed the Everglades after moving to in south Florida in 1915. She moved to Taunton when she was 6 and went to Taunton High School.
The high school in Parkland, Florida named for her, scene of the mass shooting this past Wednesday that killed 17, opened in 1990.
