Surrendered guns got a new, more peaceful purpose at an event at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on Wednesday that took inspiration from a Bible verse.
“It’s a change for an instrument with the potential for tremendous harm to an instrument of nurturing,” said Bishop James Curry, retired bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut.
The local arm of Swords to Plowshares, an anti-gun violence group, organized a demonstration on the university’s quad of transforming old guns into garden tools. The event was sponsored by the UMass Dartmouth Episcopal Campus Ministry and the LeDuc Center for Civic Engagement