As long as guns exist, some will believe that they can confidently stand their ground. Emboldened citizens will play games and even kill in an instant.
As long as guns exist, gun violence will claim lives. Idiocy, fury, larceny, mass shootings and gang wars can all culminate in “rest in peace.”
We have seen the consequences of what happens when guns accompany arrogance and insecurities. It was just a few weeks ago that a gang-related drive-by shooting in Leopold Street left a few injured. And before that, there was the case of army captain Orwain Sandy, who emptied his gun on his common-law wife Reona Payne, killing her instantly.
Between 2002 and 2008, gang violence, extra-judicial killings and even massacres created turmoil. Many of us lived in fear. I witnessed men strutting with guns like they were in a love affair with them.