Nima bana son magana akai.
Amma duk da cece-kucen da ake yi, da akwai bukatar a magance dangantakar da ke tsakanin bindigogi da kuma bangaskiyarmu.
Komawa lokacin da aka fassara samuwar bindigogi zuwa bindigar farauta a kan tarkacen bindiga ko kuma bindigar BB a cikin kabad, abubuwa sun kasance masu kyau kuma suna iya sarrafawa. Amma yanzu gabaɗayan arsenal yana hannunmu—a bisa doka.
Kisan gillar da aka yi a Las Vegas na baya-bayan nan ya sanya arsenal a fili sosai. Amma da yawa daga cikin mu Amurkawa muna samun damar wannan makamin a cikin ƙwaƙƙwaran ƙwaƙƙwalwa game da haɓakar laifukan tashin hankali.
Yana da ban tsoro, ko da yake. Laifukan tashin hankali gabaɗaya yana raguwa, duk da tashe-tashen hankula a biranen Amurka a cikin 2017. Samun bindigogi ya karu, yayin da yawancin Amurkawa ke samun makamai don kare kansu, ba kawai don amfani da nishaɗi ba.
Wannan yana fassara zuwa yanayin tsoro, wanda ke haifar da tashin hankali, ciki har da tashin hankali, yayin da mutane ke ƙara amfani da makamai a ƙoƙarin kare kansu.
Amma Allah yana so mu kāre kanmu da kirkira. Tashin hankali ba ya aiki. Kamar yadda Martin Luther King Jr. ya fayyace: Tashe-tashen hankula “zuciya ce mai saukowa, tana haifar da ainihin abin da take neman halaka. . . . Mayar da tashin hankali don tashin hankali yana ninka tashin hankali, yana ƙara duhu mai zurfi zuwa daren da ba shi da taurari. Duhu ba zai iya fitar da duhu ba: haske ne kawai ke iya yin hakan.
Ga wasu, wannan yana jin butulci. Amma juyowa daga tashin hankali baya daidai da zama ƙofa. Maimakon haka, ƙofa ce zuwa hanyar da ta fi wayo ta dakatar da mugunta.
Shekaru XNUMX da suka gabata, Amurka ta tsunduma cikin rikicin makami mai linzami na Cuba. Hafsan hafsoshin hafsoshin tsaron sun yi gardamar kai wani cikakken harin. Amma shugabannin masu sanyaya sun yi nasara, kuma an sami mafi kyawun makami: “keɓancewar” sojojin ruwa na Cuba. Amurka ta kewaye Cuba da jiragen ruwa, inda ta hana karin makamai shiga daga Tarayyar Soviet tare da tilastawa Cuba kawar ko lalata makamai masu linzami da aka riga aka yi.
Maganganun rashin tashin hankali zai zama mafi bayyananne idan muka yi amfani da bincike iri ɗaya da ƙarfin haɓakawa don ƙirƙirar makamin da ba na tashin hankali kamar yadda muke yi ga makamin na yau da kullun. Mabiyan Kristi za su sassauta zagayowar tashin hankali—maganin kere kere, makamai marasa ƙarfi, makaman Allah. Don haka, muna ba da shawarar rage bindigogi, don rage jarabar kare kanmu da tashin hankali.
A cikin 1995, ɗan wasan Mennonite Esther Augsburger da ɗanta Michael sun ƙirƙira wani sassaka mai tsawon ƙafa 16 zuwa 19 mai suna "Guns into Plowshares." An ƙirƙira shi daga cikin ainihin bindigogi 3,000, narke bayan da 'yan sanda na Washington, DC suka tattara, a matsayin wani ɓangare na shirin sayan baya.
Shekaru da yawa "Bindigu zuwa Plowshares" sun tsaya bisa annabci a Dandalin Shari'a, a tsakiyar Washington. Amma a shekara ta 2008, an sake gyara filin shari'a kuma aka maye gurbinsa da maɓuɓɓugar ruwa. "Bindigu zuwa Plowshares" an sake komawa bayan wani shinge, a cikin wani shingen kulawa kusa da wurin sarrafa najasa. Daga baya ya zauna kusa da wurin kula da shaidar shaidar 'yan sanda mai nisa. Yadda cikin sauƙi dalilin rashin tashin hankali zai iya kau.
Amma Augburgers ba su karaya ba. Wannan faɗuwar, “Bindigu zuwa Plowshares” an ƙaura na ɗan lokaci zuwa gefen harabar Jami’ar Mennonite ta Gabas don gyarawa.
Yunkurin ya kasance wani yunƙuri na herculean, tunda sassaken nauyin tan huɗu ne. Amma Augsburgers sun ƙudurta cewa ba za a ɓoye sassaken ba - amma a sabunta shi, ta yadda a ƙarshe za a iya mayar da shi Washington don ci gaba da shaida na zaman lafiya.
An kira mu don sabunta kuma mu ci gaba da shaida don zaman lafiya. Ƙoƙari ne na herculean. Amma Yesu da saƙonsa ba za a yi watsi da su ba.
Yesu yana bukatar a yi shelar saƙonsa a fili, a fili, a annabci, a sarari, har sai mafarkin ya cika: “Za su buga takubansu su zama garmuna, masunsu kuma su zama tsutsa; . . . dukansu za su zauna a ƙarƙashin kurangar inabinsu da ƙarƙashin itacen ɓaurensu, ba kuwa wanda zai tsoratar da su.” (Mikah 4:3-4).
Godiya ga Jami'ar Mennonite ta Gabas don ba da izinin yin amfani da hotuna daga bikin sadaukarwar mutum-mutumin "Guns Into Plowshares". Nemo ƙarin a http://emu.edu/now/news/2017/10/forging-peace-guns-plowshares-sculpture-dedicated-emu.
Paul Mundey Ikklisiya ce naɗaɗɗen wazirin ’yan’uwa. Ya shiga cikin ma'aikatar rubuce-rubuce da shawarwari, tare da kasancewa dalibi na digiri a cikin ka'idar tsarin iyali, a Makarantar Social Work a Jami'ar Rutgers.