This past May, a gunman shot and killed two young Israeli Embassy staffers on a busy street in Washington, D.C. In early June, in Boulder, Colorado, one person was killed and several others injured when molotov cocktails were tossed into a peaceful march. Days later, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot in their home. And last week, on a Utah college campus, an assassin killed political activist Charlie Kirk.

Here in Arizona, we are no strangers to such political violence. This is the place where a gunman shot Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in 2011. More than a decade later, the violence has not subsided — it has only spread.

As faith leaders from many traditions, we come together in shock, grief, and horror — and in a firm commitment to

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