Faith-Based 'Guns to Gardens' Program Repurposes Firearms Into Gardening Tools, Offering Healing for Gun Owners
By
Alma Beauvais
Front-window bakery material. Catches the eye, delivers the goods.
Summary
A faith-based initiative called "Guns to Gardens" hosted by churches allows gun owners to voluntarily surrender firearms, which are then dismantled and repurposed into gardening tools. The article follows Hannah Jensen, who brought her deceased father's guns to a disposal event at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church in Northglenn, Colorado. Her father died by suicide using one of the guns. The program has repurposed more than 13,000 firearms, offering gun owners a path to healing and safe disposal outside of government mandates.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledHannah Jensen woke up feeling apprehensive. It was a cold December morning in Denver, and she had something significant ahead of her.
In the trunk of Jensen's car were three of the four guns her father had owned. She carried a framed photo of him, the man who taught her to love the mountains.
Guns to Gardens has repurposed more than 13,000 firearms.
For some gun owners, these church-hosted safe disposal events offer an opportunity for healing.
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