ICOZ CONDEMNS GUN CULTURE

INDEPENDENT Churches of Zambia (ICOZ) president David Masupa has condemned the continued violence and gun culture that has been happening in the country among families and individuals.

In an interview, Bishop Masupa however commended the Government for the suspension of issuing gun licenses to the general public.

Bishop Masupa said the gun culture was un-African and that there was a need to put up stringent measures to curtail the illegality.

He added that biblically, it was evil to kill a fellow human being like an animal as it was against the Bible and laws of the land, adding that Christian values were slowly being taken away because people were now exposed to technology.

“It is evil and emotionally wrong to murder someone like an animal and the main issue is that the technology that people are seeing on social media as well as on television, they want to turn into reality,” Bishop Masupa said.

He said the increase in the gun violence incidents was not the way Zambians grew up and it was un-African and indeed unchristian adding that a person with Christian values could not take a gun and shoot a fellow human being like an animal.

He said such people should not be kept in communities because they were a danger. He said the gun culture was becoming common even in some modest Christian homes, which he said should not be the case.

“However, the Government should be commended for having put a stop to the licensing of private guns. That is good because that is not our culture. People should not emulate something that is going to take us away from that which our forefathers thought us,” he said