He's locked up. He will never come out. But many of the parents whose children he killed want him dead. He is said by the prosecution to be a psychopath.
This video of him with his brother on the day of the shooting tells me he is an argument for gun control. Tells me felt impulses and had no more ability to check them than a two-year-old. Tells me he feels despair:
The American idea of the penitentiary--for the Puritans, the place of penitence--is based on the idea that suffering as a sinner brings transcendence. He does seem to be suffering. If he can feel regret, and use what voice he has to condemn his crime, could the dream of gun control become real?
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