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Gun training instructor accidentally shoots student...who is a minister.
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A pastor with a Modesto church is recovering from a gunshot wound he suffered in a firearms safety class in Modesto.
During the course, ( Instructor) Rushing was using a training gun, a rubber fake with no firing mechanism, said Heather Graves, Modesto Police Department spokeswoman. But as the class was ending, she said, he removed that prop from his holster and replaced it with his real handgun.
About that time, Graves said, a student asked Rushing to demonstrate what to do if attacked by someone armed with a knife. Smith volunteered to portray the attacker in a role-playing exercise.
“During the scenario, the instructor drew the firearm and it accidentally discharged,” she said. She did not know whether Rushing forgot he replaced the training gun or whether he knew he was drawing the real gun.
Another local firearms safety instructor said that he felt badly for the pastor and the instructor, but that a real weapon never should have been present
. http://www.modbee.com/news/article49744900.html
During the course, ( Instructor) Rushing was using a training gun, a rubber fake with no firing mechanism, said Heather Graves, Modesto Police Department spokeswoman. But as the class was ending, she said, he removed that prop from his holster and replaced it with his real handgun.
About that time, Graves said, a student asked Rushing to demonstrate what to do if attacked by someone armed with a knife. Smith volunteered to portray the attacker in a role-playing exercise.
“During the scenario, the instructor drew the firearm and it accidentally discharged,” she said. She did not know whether Rushing forgot he replaced the training gun or whether he knew he was drawing the real gun.
Another local firearms safety instructor said that he felt badly for the pastor and the instructor, but that a real weapon never should have been present
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"Sure, I'll show you how to defend with as gun against a knife. Guns are the best defense against everything."
!!!BANG!!!
"Oops, did I do that", said in his best urkel 
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