In April, in commemoration of Earth Month, the Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah, or GVPC Utah, hosted a “Guns to Gardens” forging demonstration at an on-campus garden at the University of Utah.
The event, with blacksmiths doing the honors, showed how guns can be recycled into garden tools — turning the stock and barrel of a rifle, for example, into the handle and head of a perfectly functional shovel.
But beyond demonstrating another way to help conserve the Earth, GVPC Utah’s much larger motive is to help conserve us humans…