Pastors, Churchgoers Taking Gun Lessons
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Geof Peabody, who owns a shooting range, is training pastors and churchgoers to use guns.
Debbie Caudle, a church-attending gun students, told News 10:
I never have held a handgun before in my life and I wanted to be comfortable with it.
We need protection. People that go through classes and, you know, get licenses and stuff to carry a gun. I feel that you know we need this in our lives. We need it in church and in our businesses.
Peabody claims the goals of the class are to learn how to shoot and to stop someone else from shooting; one technique is grabbing the cylinder of a revolver to stop the bullets from entering the chamber.“One person that takes the training in this class, if they never touch another gun in their life, they can still interfere with a revolver or a semi-automatic and make it stop operating,” Peabody stated.
However, to stop a shooting the way Peabody describes, one would have to get very close to the shooter.
Pastor Dominic Triveri, of Calvary Chapel Placerville, said:
Many people have a problem with somebody in ministry, or even a Christian in general, having anything to do with firearms. But firearms are just firearms and what is done with them is up to the individuals who use them.
In 2012, Mother Jones analyzed 62 mass shootings over a span of 30 years and found not one armed citizen stopped a shooting, despite the mass proliferation of firearms in U.S. society.
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