Blacksmiths To Forge New Beginning For Guns At Bluffton University Event

BLUFFTON — The symbolic act of turning violence into peace has been written about since Biblical times, but an event happening Thursday in Bluffton will help bring this concept from an abstract idea to a real-world purpose. RAWtools, a Colorado-based organization that advocates against gun violence, will perform a three-hour blacksmith demonstration as part of its Swords to Plows initiative. Taken from a Biblical passage that reads, “they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks,” Swords to Plows is a program where blacksmiths repurpose weapons into hand tools that can be used in the creation of something new.