The Michigan State shooting was, above all, an act of evil. Three people died because an evil man decided he could take lives without remorse.

The shooter–Anthony McRae–was able to legally own a firearm for only one reason: he had been arrested for felony gun possession, but the prosecutor pled down the charge to a misdemeanor. Had he been prosecuted those 3 people would likely have been alive today, and another 5 would not be an intensive care ward fighting for their lives.

Anthony McRae — who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after opening fire on the East Lansing campus — was arrested in 2019 when he was busted with a loaded gun near an abandoned building, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections.

He was charged with possession of a loaded firearm after cops found him carrying the gun without a concealed weapons permit on June 7, 2019.

McRae, 43, was initially slapped with a felony weapons charge — which would have outlawed him from owning guns in the future if convicted, the Detroit Free Press reported.

However, he instead agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge and the felony rap was dropped as part of the deal with the Ingham County District Attorney’s office.

We are constantly harangued about the need for more gun laws in this country, but the sad fact is that the United States has countless gun laws that simply are not enforced. Violent criminals routinely get arrested for felonies that would disqualify them from owning guns, only to be let go to offend again. Often with deadly consequences.

Carol Siemon, the Ingram County Prosecutor believed that the prosecution of gun charges led to disparities which hurt Black defendents, so she decided that prosecuting felony firearm charges. She formalized the process in 2021, but had been implementing it long before.

“I was raised here in Lansing, in a diverse community,” Siemon said. “I’ve always had an interest in civil rights, all aspects of civil rights. As a woman, I’ve been a feminist all my life. LGBTQ Rights, racial disproportionality, immigrants rights. So, when I was elected as prosecutor, my goal was to try and create a more criminal and equitable legal system.” …

“We look at the data and that statistic shows that racial disparity is so unambiguous and so extreme that I couldn’t even justify,” she said….

“In Michigan, about 80 percent of people who are incarcerated on a felony firearm charge are Black, even though our statewide population for that race is only 14 percent,” Siemon said. “

In the tradition of the woke prosecutors who have been taking over our criminal justice system of late, she decided that committing a crime while Black was a get out of jail free card.

People, not just in Michigan, have been dying because of this revolving door policy that has been imposed in the name of equity. Rather than dealing with the reasons why Blacks–particularly fatherless black men–are committing violent crimes at disproportionate rates the Left has decided to create a free for all for criminals.

It is, needless to say, insane. And deadly.

Carol Siemon has retired, and a tougher-on-crime prosecutor has replaced her. But her legacy lives on. Or should I say dies on.

Unfortunately the problem is not this one prosecutor, and replacing her doesn’t solve the underlying problem. A radical ideology has become dominant in our elite classes. One that values equity over all. Even the lives of innocent people.

I think we can all agree that our society would be both safer and more just if we can figure out how to solve the dysfunctions in some “communities.” Contrary to the assumptions of liberals, the problem is not race. It is largely a broken family structure, combined with an education system that simply assumes that minority children cannot be taught.

The “equity” ideology is a cop out. Plenty of American-born blacks succeed in America, and Black immigrants are vastly more successful than American Blacks according to the Pew Research Center. The problem is culture, not racism.

When it comes to socioeconomic factors, Black immigrants stand out from the U.S.-born Black population and the overall U.S. immigrant population on some measures, such as household income and educational attainment.

For example, a larger share of Black immigrants ages 25 and older have a college degree or higher than does the U.S.-born Black population (31% vs. 22%). However, Black immigrants are about as likely as all U.S. immigrants in the same age group to have a college degree or higher (31% and 33%, respectively).

Households headed by Black immigrants also had a higher median household income in 2019 than those headed by Black Americans born in the U.S. ($57,200 vs. $42,000)….

“Equity” harms the society as a whole, and Black people in particular.

Prosecutors like Carol Siemon are murderers by proxy. They embrace and ideology that kills people, and they have to know it.