Shadow Security Minister Michael Dunkley last night warned the public not to “take any confidence in these apparent lulls in gun violence they will keep coming back around until we deal with the underlying issues.”And National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief said the recent shooting incidents were a "a betrayal of the growing community spirit in Bermuda”.The leaders spoke out after two North Shore Road shootings, just hours apart, included a 24-year-old Devonshire man well known to Sen Dunkley.“It looks like he was very lucky,” the One Bermuda Alliance deputy leader said of Saturday’s victim, who was shot near the Clayhouse Inn shortly after 3am.“If the bullet had gone an inch another way, it would have been a very different situation.”Sen Dunkley urged members of the public to assist police by coming forward.“Many people in the community know who the troublemakers are. If they would speak up, we could arrest this tide.”After speaking with the victim’s family, Sen Dunkley said: “They seem to be in pretty good shape. They’re dealing with it.”Meanwhile, a Pembroke man in his 30s was recovering following another shooting, initially taken to be a road traffic collision.The victim crashed on North Shore Road in Hamilton Parish shortly after 9pm on Friday, after sustaining a bullet wound that police said was not life-threatening.“The scenario may be different in these incidents,” Sen Dunkley said, noting that gunfire on St Monica’s Road on October 2 had occurred in broad daylight as did the attempted shooting of a Parks Department employee targeted by gunmen last Wednesday.“Most recently, we’ve had a man shot in a busy public place and another shot while in transit on the road. The boundaries keep changing all the time, and until we as a community say that enough is enough, they will keep impacting our way of life.”Mr Perinchief said: "These senseless acts, committed by a minority of our citizens, bear no resemblance to the significant, positive examples of the things in which our youth are involved. Just this weekend many of us witnessed our national football team beat Trinidad an excellent feat.He said of the shootings: “This is not who we are; dozens of neighbourhood watches and community action groups have been formed in the last several months and their work in conjunction with the Police will not be undone by a destructive few. "Government meanwhile offered no updates on the matter of the Parks worker, who narrowly escaped bullets while working at the Trimingham Hill roundabout.With fellow workers afraid of becoming casualties in further attacks, the man’s job future is under discussion between Government and the Bermuda Industrial Union with relocation to a different department said to be likely.Sen Dunkley added that desperation and financial hardship were not excuses for Bermuda’s violence.“Everyone knows we are in a difficult economic situation and everyone in the community is going through the stress, but no one should use that as an excuse for breaking the law. I’ve heard some people say, What do you expect, times are tough. But that’s not an excuse.”