His day is St. Gabriel Possenti’s feast day; short version, don’t assume the priest is some silly little fluff who can’t shoot better than your whole band.
Longer story is at EWTN, starting with:
On a summer day a little over a hundred years ago, a slim figure in a black cassock stood facing a gang of mercenaries in a small town in Piedmont, Italy. He had just disarmed one of the soldiers who was attacking a young girl, had faced the rest of the band fearlessly, then drove them all out of the village at the point of a gun. The young man was Francesco Possenti, whose father was lawyer for the Papal States and who had recently joined the Passionist Order, taking the name of Brother Gabriel.
Bishop David O’Connell, RIP, might have had a chance if he was carrying a concealed weapon…but from what I’ve read about him he would never had used it, even to save his own life.
His weapon of choice was his AR-20
American Rosary-20 mysteries.