Towards zero murders

The answer is not high detection rate but the need to eradicate the escalating murders. Won’t we be more comfortable with zero murders to the alternative of 100 murders, 98 solved?

Is it our education policies that are failing us, producing more school dropouts over the past 40 years? Or, if not dropouts, five-year secondary school graduates who cannot read, interpret or analyse any task before them?

Or are we a nation of followers, of yes men and women who answer “true” to any topic or shy away without input, just simply sitting on the fence absorbing the spoutings of the speaker on stage?

Or is it that those who have been fortunate to pursue tertiary education exit the halls of higher learning having read many books but failing to add two lines of their own to modify these said “scared” books.

All the above lead to an ignorant society that does not have the skills to settle disputes.

So with the lack of analytical skills and the inability to solve disputes, people rely on violence and the gun. The owner of these weapons is the person on the stage from which the gullible and misled are fed.

Athelston Clinton via email