German father on trial over son’s deadly shooting spree:

In Germany Joerg Kretschmer is on trial for allowing his son easy access to his gun. The gun in question is the gun that his son, Tim Kretschmer, used in his attack of Albertville-Realschule and the surrounding area where he killed 12 before taking the coward’s way out.

The elder Kretschmer’s trial is supposedly going to take 27 days which seems like an awfully long time for crimes that could bring him at the most a year in prison. Since no one ever gets the max anymore I doubt he will even see the inside of a cell.

He was going to be tried for manslaughter but the German courts ruled that his actions did not lead directly to the massacre.