The community must not take its “foot off the brake” when there is a quiet period in gun crime and remain committed to finding solutions.Government Senator David Burt made the statement in the Senate today when discussing the shooting death of 22-year-old Randy Robinson on Thursday night.Sen Burt said he personally knew Mr Robinson, a father of one who was shot while walking along Border Lane in Pembroke, and added that: “Thursday night was a very difficult night for me.“Often times when we hear all these things they seem distant. It seems as if it doesn’t touch us [and] it is someone else’s problem.”He said it was important to ask: “What as a community can we do to stop this cycle from happening and from individuals from feelings it’s OK they shoot their distant cousins because that is basically what is happening?“I think that what we must realise is when the shootings do stop, as opposed to last time, we cannot let our foot off the brake, because it is a community issue and not a law enforcement issue.”Government Senator LaVerne Furbert said everyone had a role in stopping the violence be it as fathers, mothers, grandparents or neighbours.She said a simple way to strengthen the family unit was by eating regular sit-down meals together and engaging in regular dialogue with children.Sen Furbert also encouraged fathers to take an active role in children’s lives, and in some cases said mothers had to help encourage that relationship “whether or not they paid their child support”.She said grandparents also needed to get involved in children’s lives and said: “Children need as much love as they can get and love from their grandparents is important”.New Government Senator Jonathan Smith, who has stepped in after the resignation of National Security Minister David Burch, said the violence in the community was obviously a concern.He agreed with the concept of eating family meals together and said he learnt from a television programme ‘if we do not raise our family, the streets will or someone else will’’.Opposition Senator Michael Dunkley said as the weeks go by the shootings have become more callous and show greater disregard for the community. “We see very recently even police have become targeted themselves,” he said.He applauded the work of community action groups and police, but said people haven’t listened to the signs. He said many people were too caught up in themselves and their own lives and had “forgotten to listen and look”.Sen Dunkley said people had to get together and say enough is enough, and not only take that stance after it happens to you and your family.Commenting on a story that ran in Saturday’s edition of The Royal Gazette, he said rather than just talking to the media about seeing strangers in a community, he hopes people will also be proactive about alerting police.Government Senator Cromwell Shakir encouraged the community to enjoy festivities over the Easter holiday and not avoid going out for Good Friday.He said there was a certain amount of fear resonating with residents and explained that his mother lives in a house less than 100 metres from where the shooting took place.Both Labour Minister Kim Wilson and Independent Senator Walwyn Hughes believed parents had an important role to play.Sen Wilson recalled a recent trip to Dockyard to watch pottery being made and said children were like a “lump of clay” that had to be molded into a “beautiful pot”.