LETTER OF THE DAY - Anger management needed to stem tide of bloody crimes
Published:Thursday | November 7, 2013 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:
Every end of year, statistics show the records of the numbers of people who have been brutally murdered and those who have died tragically from:
(a) road accidents;
(b) gun crimes;
(c) machete slayings;
(d) stabbing incidents.
There are other ways in which people have lost (and are losing) their lives. For instance, some have died by suicide, drowning, being struck by lightning, etc. So we also see where many have died by tragic circumstances, but the four ways mentioned above are the ones that are most deadly (likely to cause deaths and causing more deaths than any other incidents). And they are always leading the package of deaths.
Very sadly, some people are behaving like raven wolves, with the knives and machetes. They convert themselves into serious machete- and knife-mongers, using them to terminate people's lives.
When they become spit-fire angry and over-ripe and festered with temper problems and fits of rage, they totally forget the real use of these weapons. So, what do we see? Stabbing on the rise; and stabbing deaths have become the norm in this blood-soaked land.
The simplest thing nowadays is: man draw machete, and you know the end of the story. Too many persons are drawing machetes for the wrong reasons, resulting in a lot of blood running in Jamaica. The amount of blood drawn from humans' veins could fill a blood bank. Our country has become a bloody one.
Let me say this to you as a warning: practise self-control. If you are having unmanageable anger and temper problems, seek counselling and anger management therapy. They will help you.
Finally, the knives and the machetes have their purposes. They were not made to butcher people as if they were animals to the slaughter.
It is indeed a fact that the hearts of some men are desperately wicked.
Thank you very much.
DONALD J. MCKOY.