Fumbling Around on Sundays

With all this church shooting business from the last couple of years (especially recently).....folks are now reaching the point of talking over the idea of taking a gun into a Sunday service.  I sat and pondered over this, and remember the Baptist church environment as a kid in rural Alabama.

Typically, that long hour on Sundays (11 AM to noon)....was the most unbelievably boring period that you could imagine.  This was before the smart-phone era, and you could gaze around the rear of the church, and note at least two or three of the older guys nodding off to sleep. 

Some kids would have pens and would be doodling around or doing artistic pieces.  You'd occasionally notice some women fumbling their pursues (perhaps counting change). 

If the current environment continued on and guys started to tote a pistol into service.....I could imagine some guy sitting there and removing the magazine to the PPK pistol, or tripling-checking (every five minutes) the safety....to make sure it was absolutely safe.  Some would quietly be pulling their pistol out to show their associate, and gun trades might even occur in the midst of a minister chat about Japheth (son of Noah) and how he didn't get much attention because he was a 'slacker'.

In simple terms, all of this would lead to poor gun handling practices, and one day.....some idiot would flip it accidentally off safety, and let loose one round.  Someone would interpret this as the first shot of some terrorist, and then a dozen rounds would be fired toward the backdoor of the church.  It'd be one of those events that would kinda end services for the day, and be talked over for months.