I listened to Oakland County’s prosecutor detail the charges against the school shooter’s parents in Michigan. They are charged on four counts of involuntary manslaughter.
When you listen to the disregard of the parents for their sons’s involvement in gun use, and hear the very strong action of the school in alerting these parents to the danger of their son—these charges are not too strong. Probably, legally, this is all she could do, the prosecutor I mean.
Here I am all for a big show trial that causes the parents as much pain as possible, as much financial hardship as possible. Don’t plead this one out.
Perhaps other facts will come to light later that tell their story in a more sympathetic way, but I’m going to be skeptical.