A small group of people raised their voices in song and prayer, and asked for change.
"We have had enough of this and we need more responsible gun laws," shouted one of the speakers at the rally.
One of the more than two dozen people gathered near the capitol steps in Lansing on Wednesday night was Glenn Ashley.
He said his family has been too close to too many shootings, including his nephew, who has been near two.
"When he was in high school he was in Paducah, Kentucky," Ashley tells us. "He was in school there when the school shooting took place in Paducah. And now here we are, what like 15 years later? And where is he? He's a social studies teacher in Las Vegas."
Glenn just wants it to stop.
He, along with the people around him at the vigil are asking the legislature to bring gun regulations in front of the judiciary committee, even just for discussion.
"It's not too early to talk about this," Ashley says solemnly.
But guns rights groups don't think more laws and regulations are the answer.
Tom Lambert of Michigan Open Carry says he doesn't think the issues are guns, but there are discussions to be had about violence:
"I'm not a fan of punishing people that haven't done anything wrong," Lambert says. "But sure, there are conversations that we can have. But let's keep the conversations relevant to the situations if it's really harm and violence that we want to combat."
