Baltimore — The Rev. Rodney Hudson has had enough scary confrontations in and around his churches that he has taken safety measures sone would consider extreme.

There was the day he was giving the eulogy at a funeral and the son of the deceased rose to attack him in the pulpit. And another day, when two men mugged him in the church parking lot.

It was more than enough to convince the West Baltimore minister he should carry a gun and have a uniformed armed guard present for all church activities to keep himself and his flock safe.

“I carry and I don’t care who knows it,” said Hudson, the pastor of Ames Memorial Church in Sandtown-Winchester and Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Harlem Park. “It’s sad to say — we all believe in God as our protector, but the other harsh reality is t

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