The hum of power tools poured out from behind the Shepherdstown Fire Department earlier this month. Drivers approaching the fire hall met with a table of volunteers, and were guided out back to drop off something they no longer wanted: their firearms.
Members of the Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church hosted an event called “Guns to Gardens” on Oct. 12. This was the second annual event in Shepherdstown, though Guns to Gardens programs are held nationwide.
It began with one minister after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut, then spread. The idea for the event is pulled from a biblical passage in the Book of Isaiah: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.”…