Shooting Back: Guns in Churches

Shop.WND.com - A WorldNetDaily Exclusive!: "'Grenades were exploding in flashes of light. Pews shattered under the blasts, sending splinters flying through the air,' he recalls of the July 25, 1993, St. James Church Massacre. 'An automatic assault rifle was being fired and was fast ripping the pews -- and whoever, whatever was in its trajectory -- to pieces. We were being attacked!'

But van Wyk was not defenseless that day. Had he been unarmed like the other congregants, the slaughter would have been much worse.

'Instinctively, I knelt down behind the bench in front of me and pulled out my .38 special snub-nosed revolver, which I always carried with me,' he writes in 'Shooting Back,' a book published for the first time in America by WND Books. 'I would have felt undressed without it. Many people could not understand why I would carry a firearm into a church service, but I argued that this was a particularly dangerous time in South Africa.'

During that Sunday evening service, the terrorists, wielding AK-47s and grenades, killed 11 and wounded 58. But the fact that one man – van Wyk – fired back, wounding one of the attackers and driving the others away."