by Lavinia Kumar
The first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday as a Michigan judge lamented missed opportunities that could have prevented their teenage son from possessing a gun and killing four students in 2021. —AP, April 10, 2024
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The judge says, These convictions confirm repeated acts, or lack of acts, that could have halted an oncoming runaway train— the parents who’d purchased the weapon, the unstable son who had killed with the weapon, the genocide in Gaza the US and UK giving the weapons repeatedly, the unstable Israel which kills with weapons, repeatedly, a runaway train that could have been halted. Will anyone be convicted?
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Lavinia Kumar’s latest book is Spirited American Women: Early Writers, Artists, & Activists—very short prose of near 90 amazing women writers, poets, publishers, painters, artists, abolitionists, early suffragettes, and activists.
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