- Mr. Sparks said Ms. duFresne was strongly against capital punishment, and would have felt some sympathy for her young attacker. "This isn't about some bad, murdering criminal," he said. "It's about a culture that makes it so easy for kids to have guns."
Hard to believe he raised a girl who would grow up to be a playwright and actress living in Brooklyn who worked in a bar and would die drunk.
The Atticus Principle: Anytime a person says "It's not about X; it's about Y," you can bet your ass it's mostly about X and partly about Y.