Africans must know that the rifle protects the Bible

Editor,There’s no place on this earth where weapons and guns circulate more easily than in the United States, but you don’t see mass displacement of people due to insecurity, nor will you hear that investment slowed down because of weapons, small or large.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Editor,There’s no place on this earth where weapons and guns circulate more easily than in the United States, but you don’t see mass displacement of people due to insecurity, nor will you hear that investment slowed down because of weapons, small or large.I personally think that the difference between Africa and US in this concept is that Africans believe that Jesus will protect them, whereas Americans hold a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other.Until the day when people will understand the security concept and that the rifle protects the Bible – not the other way round, we’ll continue to count dead innocent civilians, talking the talk but unable to walk the walk.AbdulRahman Ntaganda, KigaliReaction to Gitura Mwaura’s commentary, "The irony of the number of weapons in the hands of armed groups in DRC”, (The New Times, May 16)