The people of Bermuda need to find the “courage and confidence” to stand up to gunmen before their loved ones end up in the firing line.Commissioner of Corrections Edward Lamb has voiced his anger at Bermudians doing nothing more than “panicking and fear mongering” as gang members wreak havoc on our streets.The straight-talking prison boss is calling on men and women to work towards a solution to stop Bermuda’s worsening gun crime as “sitting back and doing nothing” is no longer as option.Mr Lamb said: “Boys are shooting one another and we are the ones who can put a stop to this madness.“We all need to get a grip on what’s happening. We have to get this problem under control. We need to get the guns out of the hands of these men. It’s not a police problem, it’s not a prisons problem, it’s a Bermuda problem. We need to all understand that.”Mr Lamb spoke out about his views on gun crime during a discussion on the issues facing Bermuda’s men at Marsden First United Methodist Church in Smith’s last week. The topic of the forum was simply: ‘What went wrong?’He said he had heard people saying they were too scared to go out at night and parents refusing to allow their children to return to Bermuda after University.There has been five gun murders already this year, but Mr Lamb vowed: “I’m not living in fear in my own country.”He said: “There’s lots of panic and fear mongering going on.“But everyone needs to stop panicking and stop feeding their fear into the heart of this country. Everyone likes to gossip and overreact, but that’s all it is.“This is our country and we should all refuse to be fearful in our own country.”Mr Lamb told the audience of about 50 people at the church meeting: “I see the solution and I demand that you all be part of it.”Mr Lamb said the community needed to face up to what was happening by putting a stop to “all this ‘we don’t know who they are’ and ‘we can’t find them’ nonsense.”He said: “We all need to have some courage and confidence to be part of the solution.“We have to help these boys. It will be like the plague and just keep on spreading if we don’t break this pattern.”Mr Lamb stressed that “the Village has to come together” as we should be raising and mentoring our own children, as well as each other’s children.He said it was unfair and irresponsible for parents to leave teachers to discipline their children. Mr Lamb added that “there were some teachers in the education system who shouldn’t even be anywhere near children.”Mr Lamb said most of the men who are in Westgate for firearms offences lacked a father figure and had never been told that they were loved. He used the example of a man who had escaped custody while attending his court case the ‘Facebook fugitive’ Alvone Maybury.Mr Lamb stressed that he knew 25-year-old Maybury “wasn’t a threat to society” when he was on the run for two weeks even though most people thought he was.When Maybury was returned to Westgate, Mr Lamb made sure he was one of the first people he saw.Maybury was in the medical room being assessed when Mr Lamb asked him how he was feeling; he replied that he felt awful because he “was back in this place.”At that point Mr Lamb told Maybury: “You are a beautiful and decent young man and we all make mistakes,” before hugging him and telling him he would be a father figure to him.Mr Lamb said people should be trying to get to the root cause of the problem rather than being quick to judge those involved. He said he saw all the inmates at Westgate as “my sons.”Mr Lamb warned: “We don’t know when the next trigger is going to be pulled and we don’t know who is going to be in the firing line.“It could be one of your loved ones next. We can’t just sit back and do nothing.”