Ifind myself filled with anger and grief — a grief that is cumulative and overwhelming. The Sept. 28 shooting and fire at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation in Grand Blanc is reprehensible.

We can presume that the shooter was angry. Clearly, he was violent. There also may have been mental health issues involved.

But what we know with complete and absolute certainty is that he had ready access to an assault-style rifle. The availability of firearms makes this crime commonplace in the United States of America, and unthinkable in most every other country in the world.

Day after day, Americans shoot each other, while we as a nation stand by and watch gun companies make money, and beloved Children of God die.

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