What if LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson said: Put away your guns?
Latter-day Saint scholars examine gun violence and whether the Utah-based faith should speak out more powerfully on this “moral issue.”
(Photo by Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) One of the many handguns, shown in 2017, stored in the gun vault at the Utah State Crime Lab. A 2020 survey found that 47% of Latter-day Saint households in the U.S. have a gun.