{"id":176448,"date":"2025-11-21T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=176448"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:26:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:26:58","slug":"daily-fgs-627","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=176448","title":{"rendered":"Daily FGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-176450 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pss-300x123.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pss-300x123.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pss-500x205.webp 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pss.webp 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/marlin-model-70pss-papoose\/\">Marlin Model 70PSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Nationwide Movement Turning Guns into Garden Tools<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>A process that heals trauma while taking guns out of circulation is producing beautiful tools that cultivate life rather than destroy it.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By: Michaela Haas<br \/>\nThe first time Mike Martin held an AK-47 was after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, which claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults. The shooting shocked a friend of a friend, a lawyer, into questioning why he owned an AK-47 in the first place. \u201cHe decided to destroy that one,\u201d Martin recalls.<\/p>\n<p>As a Mennonite youth and young adult pastor, Martin had long contemplated the idea of interpreting the \u201cswords to ploughshares\u201d ideal from the Book of Isaiah in a modern context.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy faith tradition is rooted in peace and non-violence,\u201d he says. Together with his father and the lawyer, Martin took the AK-47 to a nearby blacksmith in Colorado Springs, dismantled it and forged the metal into a shovel and a rake. \u201cThere\u2019s this thing about turning guns into garden tools,\u201d Martin reflects in the book Beating Guns. \u201cYou have to add some heat \u2014 a little more than 2,000 degrees of controlled flame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This moment sparked the beginning of RAWtools (War spelled backwards), a nonprofit Martin now runs full-time, and a movement spanning four states with affiliates in Buffalo, NY; Philadelphia, PA; and Asheville, North Carolina. Since its humble beginnings 14 years ago, RAWtools has destroyed and repurposed more than 6,000 guns, forging them into garden tools and art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No Score<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/reasonstobecheerful.world\/nationwide-movement-turning-guns-into-garden-tools\/\">Reasons<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those who beat their swords into plowshares shall plow for those who did not.<br \/>\n-Anon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlin Model 70PSS The Nationwide Movement Turning Guns into Garden Tools A process that heals trauma &hellip; <a title=\"Daily FGS\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=176448\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daily FGS<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":176450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176449,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176448\/revisions\/176449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/176450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}