credited with taking down the gunman. >> you pray and hope you never have to go to that extreme. >> reporter: following a shooting in texas two years ago, state lawmakers passed legislation allowing handguns in places of worship and churches to form security teams. >> if there is any church in this state in america that was prepared for this, it was this church. >> reporter: authorities are still learning more about the gunman who has been described as relatively transient by the fbi. >> my understanding is more of a loaner and probably very difficult to determine exactly what his motivations were other than maybe mental illness. >> reporter: the victims, two men who simply went to worship on a sunday, a church. >> he always wanted us to be in the church. he was auld my rode model. >> reporter: one of them identified as tony wallace, a deacon of the church. >> god wanted him more than we did. they couldn't handle his

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