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.Sen Burt said he personally knew Mr Robinson, a fatherof-one who was shot while walking along Border Lane, in Pembroke, and added: “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, we cannot let our foot off the break, 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”.New Government Senator Jonathan Smith, who has stepped in after the retirement of 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’’.