In the wake of the deadly school shooting in Florida, LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson criticized U.S. laws “that allow guns to go to people who shouldn’t have them.”
“I know your hearts are heavy, as are [wife] Wendy’s and mine, as we contemplate those ruthless killings in Florida last week,” Nelson said. “I think of 14-year-old Latter-day Saint Alaina Petty, whose life was snuffed out by a sniper’s bullets. It’s natural for you and others to say: How could God allow things like that to happen? Well, God allows us to have our agency and men have passed laws that allow guns to go to people who shouldn’t have them.