Posted on 10/01/2025 4:06:19 PM PDT by Morgana
A member of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints has raised nearly $200,000 for a shooter who fatally gunned down four Mormons while they were worshipping at church.
Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, of Burton, rammed his pickup truck into the Grand Blanc Township church on Sunday morning, before opening fire and setting it ablaze, killing four.
He was then shot dead by police who were responding to the bloodbath.
Now, David Butler, a Mormon, has started a GiveSendGo to help Sanford's family despite him taking the lives of his fellow churchgoers which has so far raised more than $192,000.
'Like all of you, I was shocked by the murders at the LDS chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on September 28. Multiple families were left grievously wounded and in need of help,' Butler wrote.
'One of the families that suffered a terrible loss on that day was the family of Thomas Jacob Sanford, the shooter.'
Butler, a fantasy author, went on to argue that although Sanford is dead, his wife and children are left to grieve and wil,l 'face financial hardship and psychological trauma as a result of this week's horrifying events.'
He also mentioned one of the Sanford children requires expensive medical treatment which the family has asked for support paying for in the past.
Butler, who describes himself as an 'ordinary member' of the LDS church, has no connection the Sanford family.
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Yes, the spirit of Erika Kirk is in this act.
It’s pretty powerful.
it is stupidity and enabling for future murderers ...
I agree. To me, people who engage in organized religions’ forgiveness mean well but they are enablers to the most evil of demonic types.
Turn the other cheek and get that slashed too,
How much have they raised for the families of the victims?
“ the spirit of Erika Kirk is in this act.”
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ABSOLUTELY!
“....A member of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints has raised nearly $200,000 for a shooter who fatally gunned down four Mormons...”
While you are at it pilgrim, why don’t you raise money for other anti-mormons with homicidal tendencies?
“ Turn the other cheek and get that slashed too,”
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You do know that it wasn’t the innocent wife and children who did the shooting and arson? Just sayin’.
The Mormons I have known were absolutely wonderful people, but because they do not believe that Jesus is God incarnate, they cannot be called Christians. There are other things about their doctrine that are also non-Biblical. At the same time, they love the LORD Jesus. They are just completely wrong about who He is. God will have to sort it out; it’s above my pay grade.
You bring up an interesting point. I expect that we will never know the extent of the involvement of the family, since the killer is dead.
This is an act of kindness I cannot pretend to understand, but it may be that it is rushed.
I don’t think that I could have forgiven Charlie Kirk’s killer until after the execution.
That is just my thinking.
I got acquainted with a Mormon named Ammon Bundy eight plus years ago with the Oregon Standoff protest in 2016.
More like Christ than many who use his name vainly, repetitively as has been my experience.
Great to be around him on the way to my sobriety, sanity and surrender to my Lord Jesus Christ who said in John 15 ‘apart from me you can do nothing’
There is nothing for these givers to forgive. They were not wronged or sinned against.
This is an act of charity.
it’s the spirit of God, not Erika. God is the only reason Erika was able to handle the loss of Charlie and related things as she has.
I started watching the event in Utah last night and turned it off after Governor cox said “both sides” moral equivalency. I hope he never speaks at a Charlie Kirk event again. All I could think of was Erika.
Kindness, yes. And also gross stupidity.
Maybe some nut is going to see this article, and think his family can use $200,000 too. Then maybe he’ll do what he’s gotta do.
Was it a wife or girlfriend who lived with the filth?
Think of this as a Public Relations (PR) stunt.
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