maybe thoughts prayers remedy follow shoot first unite methodist church east tennessee 20 senior citizens gather around holiday meal meal group elderly churchgoers decide discuss gun safety spate mass shoot recently many 317 far year get idea conversation reportedly nearby county sheriff department hold similar seminars local church accord tellico plain police chief russ park well get gun 81-year-old member church tellico plain say accord park washington post report man pull holster .38-caliber ruger handgun promptly remove magazine everyone see clear chamber show gun fellow parishioners.the churchgoers discuss safely bring gun church speak deaths recent mass shoot like example recent texas massacre gunman shoot 26 people dead sit church.the 81-year-old man put magazine back gun put gun back holster park explain late parishioners clean one church member miss demonstration ask man see firearm everything turn chaotic inside church.the 81-year-old accidentally pull trigger without realize gun load bullet fire across palm man hand toward 80-year-old wife sit wheelchair next enter low leave abdomen go right side abdomen right forearm backside forearm follow bullet ricochet wall land wife wheelchair park said.that prompt panic church folks think active gunman premise back park say somebody holler shoot shoot call 911 due lot panic call 911 dispatcher assume someone enter church shoot several school put lockdown.the injure husband wife fly university tennessee medical center list critical condition.we wait nra say wife gun could protect image ken wilcox via flickr creative commons license 2.0. chaos ensue man accidentally shoot wife church gun safety talk