Boulder Mennonites turn donated guns into garden tools
By KATIE LANGFORDApril 10, 2021 GMT
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) There was healing in the swing of a hammer at Boulder Mennonite Church on Good Friday.
Dozens of community members gathered for a vigil to pray, reflect and remember 10 victims of a mass shooting at the nearby King Soopers on March 22.
The event was accompanied by the steady clang of a hammer as people took turns forming disassembled guns into garden tools a quarter of a mile away from where the shooting occurred. Boulder Mennonite Church is just across Broadway.
Colorado Springs-based RAWtools travels the state and country offering demonstrations, nonviolence training and action steps related to gun violence. These demonstrations are a central part of what they do taking donated guns, disassembling them, heating the metal in a forge and turning them into tools, a literal application of a verse from the book of Isaiah in the Bible: “They will beat their swords int
Boulder Mennonites turn donated guns into garden tools
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Executive Director Randy Spaulding described the resolution’s adoption as the beginning of a lengthy process to create an ethnic studies policy. “The Board is walking the walk here,” he said, and it will do “the same training that we’re asking the educators to do.”
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