I carry my S&W to Mass every week.
I do NOT tell anybody.
Six lives rest in the cylinder, and a dozen more in speedloaders in my pocket. After I shoot the first eighteen of them, I’ll rely on the 5” blade of my Cold Steel folding knife.
I am as ready as I will ever be.
OK. But you neglected to mention the really Big Guns. Do you carry a rosary?
(I have to check myself on that, too. I have any number of rosaries, but never one in my pocket when I want it. Just an airhead sometimes, I guess...)
God bless you. I hope we have other men at Catholic churches who are also ready. It’s coming here a great scale, I fear.