Did the Mormons kill any Americans from 1847 to present?

Answer 1

This is a gotcha question, that has no significant answer. The irony of this question is that we are all Americans.

This type of question is used to insight anger towards Mormons or any other religious or ethnic group. You could possibly classify this question as a hate crime question and possibly have the person asking this question arrested and/or prosecuted!

The same question could be asked of any religion or ethnic group, i.e. Catholic, Protestant, Methodist, Baptist, Seventh Day Adventist, Jehovah Witness, Jew, Buddhist, Islamist, etc.

Everyday in the media we read or hear about someone killing another person or persons. By labeling the killer from a religious organization or from a ethnic group the media singles out that organization & group for anger from radicals. I recently read some articles about persons who had committed murder/s, the media immediately labeled the murderer from a religious group or a ethnic group. Death threats, protests, graffiti and other hate acts took place. This shouldn't happen, but it does and questions like this have no place on 'ANSWERS'.

Well, many Mormons are Americans, and many Americans are Mormons. There have been cases of American Mormons killing other American Mormons, and there have been cases of American Mormons killing American non-Mormons. There have also been cases of non-American Mormons killing Americans. Many of these occurred in times of war. (For example, a German Mormon soldier killing an American soldier during World War I)

The Mormon Church as a whole did not orchestrate any sort of killing of people, Mormon, American, or otherwise, but there have been cases of individual Mormons killing people.