The Book of Isaiah, chapter 2 verse 4 reads “And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
The RawTools Cooperative has decided to apply that biblical admonition to the modern world, with their Guns to Garden Tools program. On Saturday, September 28, the Eastmorland Community Center invites the community to bring in unwanted firearms on a no-questions-asked basis. Trained volunteers will disable and destroy the guns and then shape them into functional garden tools.
At a Guns to Garden Tools event in 2022, organizer and former pastor Jeff Wild (left) and a group of volunteers dismantle donated firearms and prepares them for conversion into garden tools. Volunteers at work at the 2022 Guns to Garden Tools event A volunteer melts down a donated gun with a portable forge at the 2022 Guns to Garden Tools event Tools fashioned from donated guns
Scott and Staci Marrese-Wheeler visited the WORT studios to tell Monday 8 o’Clock Buzz host Brian Standing more about how Madisonians can follow the biblical teaching to bring violence to an end. Scott has organized many Guns to Garden Tools events and is running this one. Staci is the Director of the Eastmorland Community Center where this Saturday’s event will take place.
The Guns to Garden Tools event takes place Saturday, September 28 from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the Eastmorland Community Center, 3565 Tulane Avenue in Madison.
Other organizations that promote gun violence prevention are the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and The Farley Center, which will host a Musicians for Gun Sense Concert that same day.
Staci and Scott Marrese-Wheeler. Photo by WORT producer Nicholas WoottonAll photos courtesy of Scott Marrese-Wheeler and Pat Siegler, except as indicated.
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