According to the Sheepdog Seminar website, he was coming soon to a church near Bangor, Me. A few of us were carrying openly; many more had pistols concealed in baggy cargo pants or beneath untucked shirts. He was calling, he said, because he was concerned that I hadn’t understood the nature of the Sheepdog Seminar. There were important things to be learned from these brave presenters, a great many things, ordered, elucidated and drilled into us by Jimmy Meeks — urging, weeping, scorning, confessing, praying. Yes, there would be guns, but the people carrying them would be the right people, carefully selected, thoroughly trained.

Source: New York Times June 01, 2019 14:22 UTC