Pistol

Our church held a Guns to Gardens event … guns hammered into garden tools … generous gift cards in exchange for any firearm, any condition. People brought in firearms of every type and kind and they were heated and hammered into trowels. As the event wound down we watched cars drive by. Someone said it’s not only the number of guns we turn into garden tools, it’s the visibility of our work to get guns out of circulation. I imagined that in one passing car the driver said, “We should get Dad’s old pistol out of the closet and bring it here.”