I always find this sort of forgiveness amazing:

Erika Kirk, widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, said she forgives her husband's alleged killer.

"That man, that young man ... I forgive him," Kirk said, wiping away tears as the audience at Kirk's memorial at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., erupted in applause on Sunday.

"I forgive him because it was what Christ did and is what Charlie would do," she said. "The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the gospel is love and always love. Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us."

Speaking to tens of thousands of people at the stadium, Kirk said she had found comfort in prayer and also in the way people had responded to her husband's death.

"We didn't see violence, we didn't see riots. We didn't see revolution. Instead we saw what my husband always prayed he would see in this country: We saw revival. We saw people open a Bible for the first time in a decade," she said, urging people to continue doing so.

"Pray again, read the Bible again, go to church next Sunday, and the Sunday after that and break free from the temptations and shackles of this world," Kirk said.

"I forgive you," said the daughter of 70-year-old Ethel Lance to the 21-year-old man who allegedly murdered her mother in church and appeared at an emotionally charged video court appearance in Charleston on Friday afternoon, two days after a horrific mass shooting here.

"You took something very precious from me, but I forgive you," Lance's daughter said through tears. "It hurts me. You hurt a lot of people, but may God forgive you."

Speaking of her son Tywanza Sanders, who was also killed on Wednesday night trying to shield his great aunt from gunfire, Felicia Sanders said to the suspect: "We welcomed you Wednesday night in our Bible study with open arms. You have killed some of the most beautifullest people that I know. Every fiber in my body hurts. I will never be the same."

She continued: "Tywanza was my hero. But as they say in the Bible study, we enjoyed you, but may God have mercy on your soul."

I wonder where this country will be 10 years from now?:

What forgiveness from Charleston church shooting families can teach us 10 years later

9 Black worshippers killed in June 2015

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - There's an unspoken expectation for safety inside the walls of a church, where love and peace flow in abundance. It's also where we can learn to be the best version of ourselves; kind, accepting and forgiving, even under the worst circumstances.

Bishop Dewayne Anthony Walker of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church said the pain of the 2015 mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston still feels fresh.

"I was horrified. Just the notion of someone walking into a bible study class, which we welcome ... and all of a sudden, that person stands up and just begins to shoot," Walker said.

The 21-year-old shooter shot twelve people, killing nine of them.

There were never any riots after the Tree of Life Synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh either, in which 11 people were killed and 6 injured:

A Look Back At Oct. 27, 2018
Pittsburgh's darkest day began as a rainy and dreary October morning like any other in the fall -- but the world's eyes would soon turn to Squirrel Hill, as unthinkable hatred shattered one of the city's most peaceful neighborhoods.

Eleven worshippers were shot and killed inside the Synagogue, as they attended services at each of the three congregations in the building -- Tree of Life, New Light, and Dor Hadash.

Later that evening, it was the young people of Squirrel Hill, students from Taylor Allderdice High School, who brought the community together to begin the long process of healing, one which continues today.

The streets of Mister Rogers' neighborhood filled with mourners wanting to pray, sing, cry and remember the lives taken and the lives forever impacted by the terror that rang out earlier that same day.