Is it just me, or did anyone else find the fact that the megachurch has armed security guards disturbing?

From cnn.com:

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) — “It seemed like it was me, the gunman, and God,” said Jeanne Assam, describing her feelings as she confronted a man who charged into her Colorado Springs church Sunday firing a weapon.

Assam, a church security guard with law enforcement experience, fired her own weapon at the invader and stopped his attack, police say.

Also, when did “megachurch” sneak into the national vocabulary?

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