The Editor
The Anguillian
Dear Sir:
TOUCHED BY “ANGUILLA I AM ANGRY!”
For the past two weeks my wife and I have been deeply touched by the serial article “AnguillaI am angry.”
May I say, at the outset, that the author (who I have found out in the second part of the article, to be a gentleman, although unknown since no name has been signed) is a very good writer. He certainly captures the attention of his readers in a very unique way by his lucid writing style and honest lamentation (if I can use that phrase).
The writer has raised a very pertinent and serious issue – this bedeviling problem of gun violence and other associated crimes that once were foreign toAnguilla. We are all worried over this escalating violence, and the hearts of a number of parents and other relatives are already bleeding in grief. At least two young men are known to be incapacitated by gunshot wounds and are probably hoping against hope to walk again.
Like so many of our people, I am greatly troubled by this violence among our misguided youth and wonder when it will ever stop. We need the fervent prayers of our entire Anguillian society and the will of our teeming youth to say no to violence. We need our politicians to openly condemn crime in all its forms and for every possible thing to be done to bring an end to this evil and dangerous culture which has seeped intoAnguilla’s community.
Everybody is getting concerned and afraid, and even I am not comfortable to sign my name to this letter and I ask your readers to understand and forgive me. Before I close, I want to once again highly commend your unnamed writer whose conviction and pleas have compelled me to write this letter. I have heard his lamentations and support his views very much.
Would to God that others will follow suit and condemn this scourge in our society.
I also take this opportunity to commend the Department of Youth and Culture and the Ministry of Social Development, which have spoken out against gun violence as reported in the previous edition of The Anguillian.
Yours in the battle against gun violence,
Zero Tolerance
