PASTOR SHOT DURING GUN SAFETY CLASS

A pastor with a Modesto, California, church is recovering from a gunshot wound he suffered in a firearms safety class. Tom Smith, a pastor at The House Modesto, was attending a course taught by Phillip Rushing at the Personal Protection Institute on December 5. During the course, Instructor Rushing was using a fake rubber gun with no firing mechanism. As the class was ending, he removed that prop from his holster and replaced it with his real handgun. But then a student asked Rushing to demonstrate what to do if attacked by someone armed with a knife. Pastor Smith volunteered to portray the attacker in a role-playing exercise. Instructor Rushing drew the firearm and it accidentally discharged into the pastor. He was hit in the waist, above a hip. He was taken by ambulance to an area hospital. The most recent report says Pastor Smith is still in much pain but pulling through the physical therapy.
* Maybe the instructor didn’t think the pastor was holy enough. (note: this brilliant joke comes from an internet commenter)
* Now he’s holier than thou!
* Time for a refresher class, everybody.
* Sounds like Instructor Rushing needs to slow down.
* Meanwhile, the pastor is wondering why God doesn’t like him.
* Wait, you had to ask what to do if you had a gun and someone attacked you with a knife?
* Use your imagination.
* I suppose you could take out the gun and shoot yourself and hope the knife attacker lost interest.
* Or … I don’t know … maybe you would draw your weapon and try and make the attacker stop.